AREQUIPA, Peru – Brazil’s Center for Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (Cenipa) reported Sunday that it managed to extract and recover the contents of the two black boxes removed from the plane that crashed in the state of Sao Paulo.
“The data was obtained, validated, and now we await the line of investigation from our investigators, who are still here with me (in Sao Paulo),” revealed Brigadier Marcelo Moreno, head of Cenipa, who offered a press conference reported by the state agency Latin Press.
The director announced that they will return to Brasilia to work on transforming this huge number of statistics into useful information for society.
The accident occurred last Friday and left 62 people dead (58 passengers and four crew members). The ATR-72 aircraft operated by the airline Voepass Linhas Aéreas was heading from Cascavel, in the state of Paraná, to Guarulhos, in São Paulo, the airline said. company.
Now, in the Brazilian capital, experts will be responsible for examining the contents of the black boxes.
According to Moreno, the two engines of the plane will be analyzed in Sao Paulo to verify whether they were working at the time of the accident. He also said that the preliminary report of the investigation will be presented in 30 days.
The brigadier said this Saturday that it is still premature to comment on the different hypotheses that specialists are handling about the causes. of the accidentthe main one of which is about the possible accumulation of ice on the aircraft’s wings, which would explain its spin.
Three representatives of France’s Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) arrived at the scene of the tragedy on Sunday.
The BEA was activated by the Brazilian authorities and must collaborate in the investigations since the aircraft that crashed, model ATR-72, was manufactured in France.
Moreno is also waiting in the town of Vinhedo, in the state of Paraná, where the plane departed, for representatives of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), the country where the engines were manufactured.
The BEA and the TSB are similar to Cenipa. Experts from the three countries must act jointly in the investigation that must identify the causes of the accident.
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