A flat spin and plummet of thousands of feet caught on video left no survivors for a passenger plane that crashed in a Brazilian neighborhood.
(Video: Fox News)
Onlookers watched in horror Friday afternoon as a plane could be seen spinning out of control as it dropped from the sky on its way to Sao Paulo’s international airport. While experts addressed potential factors that may have brought down the flight carrying four crew members and at least 57 passengers, according to the Associated Press, others cautioned against jumping to “wrong conclusions.”
Video taken on the ground in Vinhedo where VoePass flight 2283 had crashed after departing Cascavel, Brazil showed as the ATF 72 twin-engine turboprop dropped out of the sky in what Fox News host Trace Gallagher described as a “death spiral.”
BREAKING: Passenger plane falls out of 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 carry dozens of people.
The local fire department confirmed the plane fell 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 would have been able to survive, but further tragedy was seemingly avoided as the AP reported there had been no injuries on the ground initially accounted for.
While reporting on the deadly crash, Brazilian television network Globo’s meteorology team had “confirmed the possibility of the formation of ice in the region of Vinhedo” as some suspected the weather may have been the cause for the crash.
However, Lt. Col. Carlos Henrique Baldi, head of the Brazilian investigation division responsible for air accidents contended the aircraft was “certified in several countries to fly in severe icing conditions, including in countries unlike ours, where the impact of ice is more significant.”
“Analyzing an air crash just with images can lead to wrong conclusions about the causes,” said Brazilian aviation expert Lito Sousa 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’s no way to reclaim control of the plane.”
Similarly, aviation expert Arthur Rosenberg spoke with Fox News’s “The Story” and hedged on pinpointing a specific cause for the accident, instead making note of apparent stall conditions. “A stall is when the plane is not moving through the air fast enough, forward motion, 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 dropped 17,000 feet in about two minutes.”
Likewise, Gallagher spoke to the rarity of plane crashes and the potential that the pilots may have “suffered some sort of spatial disorientation and just lost control, but that would be rare.”
During a press conference 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 there had been no evidence that the pilots had attempted to report air traffic control. No distress calls had been reported.
In their own statement, VoePass indicated, “The company regrets to inform that all 61 people on board flight 2283 died locally,” while the manufacturer, French-Italian ATR, expressed that they were “fully engaged to support both the investigation and the customer.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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