More than 60 dead after passenger plane falls from sky in Brazil

A flat spin and plunge of thousands of feet captured on video left no survivors for a passenger plane that crashed in a Brazilian neighborhood.

(Video: Fox News)

Onlookers watched in horror on Friday afternoon as a plane could be seen spinning out of control as it fell from the sky on its way to Sao Paulo International Airport. While experts addressed the potential factors that could have led to the breakdown of the flight with four crew members and at least 57 passengers, seconds in the Associated Press, others cautioned against jumping to the “wrong conclusions.”

Video taken on the ground in Vinhedo, where VoePass Flight 2283 had crashed after taking off from Cascavel, Brazil, showed the ATF 72 twin-engine turboprop falling from the sky in what Fox News host Trace Gallagher described as a “death spiral”.

BREAKING: A passenger plane falls from the sky in Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to local media.

At the moment, it is not clear how many people were on board but the plane has the capacity to transport dozens of people.

Local firefighters confirmed that the plane went down in the city of… pic.twitter.com/BOlD34eCcj

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 9, 2024

The nature of the crash made it unlikely that anyone on board could have survived, but another tragedy appears to have been averted, as the AP reported that there were initially no injuries on the ground.

While reporting on the fatal crash, the weather team at Brazilian TV station Globo had “confirmed the possibility of ice formation in the Vinhedo region”, as some suspected the weather might have been the cause. the accident

However, Lt. Col. Carlos Henrique Baldi, head of the Brazilian air accident investigation division, stated that the plane was “certified in several countries to fly in severe icing conditions, even in countries in unlike ours, where the impact of the ice is more important.”

“Analyzing an air crash with just images can lead to wrong conclusions about the causes,” Brazilian aviation expert Lito Sousa said in a call to the AP. “But we can see a plane with loss of support, no horizontal speed. In this flat spin condition, there is no way to regain control of the aircraft.”

Similarly, aviation expert Arthur Rosenberg spoke to Fox News' “The Story” and pledged to identify a specific cause of the crash, rather than the apparent conditions of the stall. “A stall is when the airplane is not moving through the air fast enough, forward, to be able to maintain lift to stay in the air.”

“The sound tells me there was something wrong with one or both engines,” he expressed. “It looked like it fell 17,000 feet in about two minutes.”

Similarly, Gallagher spoke of the rarity of plane crashes and the potential for pilots “to have suffered some sort of spatial disorientation and just lost control, but that would be rare.”

During a press conference on Friday, Public Security Secretary Guilherme Derrite noted that the black box had been recovered in a preserved state, while Ports and Airports Minister Silvio Costa Filho had told reporters that no there was evidence that the pilots had tried to report to air traffic control. No distress call had been reported.

In its own statement, VoePass said: “The company regrets to report that all 61 people on board flight 2283 died locally,” while the manufacturer, Franco-Italian ATR, said they were “fully committed to both research and customer support.” .”

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A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he's not researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel the

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