Information extracted from black boxes of Voepass plane that crashed in Brazil
The people in charge of the investigation of the plane crash that occurred on Friday in the state of São Paulo (Brazil) and left 62 victims, affirmed this Sunday that they recovered all the information in the black boxes of the aircraft.
“On Sunday morning, we achieved 100% success in obtaining voice and data information from the recorders (black boxes) in the moments preceding the accident,” said the director of the Brazilian Air Force’s Center for Air Accident Investigation and Prevention (Cenipa), Brigadier General Marcelo Moreno.
At a press conference in Vinhedo, the city in the interior of the state of São Paulo where the accident occurred, the official said that investigators will now begin to analyze all the data to try to discover the causes of the accident.
Determine causes of the accident
“The work has just begun. The data was obtained and validated and now we have to transform that immense amount of data into useful information for society,” said the general, who highlighted Cenipa’s ability to extract the data from the black boxes without the need to request help from other countries.
Moreno did not advance any information on what was recovered and promised to deliver “in up to 30 days” a first preliminary report with the data obtained, which could shed light on much of what happened to the Voepass airline plane.
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The two recorders, a voice recorder with the cockpit conversations and a data recorder with all the flight information, were recovered on Friday night and sent on Saturday to Cenipa’s main laboratory in Brasilia.
Regular operating conditions
The general said the day before that it is still premature to comment on the different hypotheses that specialists have pointed out about the causes of the accident, the main one being the possible accumulation of ice on the wings of the aircraft, which would explain its nosedive.
“At this time we cannot say whether that was decisive or not,” said the military official, who clarified that the aircraft was certified to travel in those conditions and had devices to prevent icing.
According to the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), both the aircraft and the crew members were in regular operating conditions and had all the required certificates up to date.
Bodies recovered
The teams that had been working since Friday in the rescue tasks concluded on Saturday night the recovery of the bodies of the 62 victims and their transfer to the Institute of Legal Medicine in São Paulo, where two of them have already been identified.
The crashed aircraft, a twin-engine ATR-72-500 manufactured in France, was flying between the city of Cascavel and São Paulo with 58 passengers and 4 crew members on board and crashed with about 80 kilometers left to reach its destination.
Despite falling in a residential area, the plane crashed into the backyards of a residential complex without affecting any buildings or leaving any casualties on the ground.
French authorities arrive in Brazil
French authorities have arrived at the site where the plane crashed. They are working with Brazilian authorities to determine the cause of the crash.
Alrededor de 10 representantes del Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la Sécurité de l’Aviation Civile (BEA), están trabajando con CENIPA.
The BEA was activated by the Brazilian authorities as the crashed aircraft was manufactured in France. Representatives of the manufacturer are also expected to arrive in Brazil.
The Canadians are also working with French and Brazilian authorities to recall the engines, as they were manufactured in Canada.
With information from EFE and CNN
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