Families of victims of an airliner crash in Brazil are assembleing Sunday at a morgue and boilingels in Sao Paulo as forensics experts toil to resettle the remains of the 62 people finished in the accident.
Local authorities shelp the bodies of the pilot, Danilo Santos Romano, and his co-pilot, Humberto de Campos Alencar e Silva, were the first to be identified.
Brazilian media shelp another four people were identified at the Sao Paulo morgue, which did not verify the adviseation.
The Sao Paulo state rulement shelp in a statement Sunday morning that the searches finished at 10:45 p.m. on Saturday, 33 hours after the crash, with the remains of all 34 males and 28 females among the victims recovered. It inserted that the wreckage remains at the site so spendigators can proceed their toil.
The ATR 72 ttriumph-engine turboprop rund by Brazilian airline Voepass was headed for Guarulhos international airport in Sao Paulo with 58 passengers and four crew members aboard when it went down Friday in Vinhedo, 78 kilometres north of the metropolis.
Voepass shelp three passengers who held Brazilian identification also carried Venezuelan write downs and one had Portuguese.
Images write downed by witnesses showed the aircreate in a flat spin and plunging verticassociate before smashing to the ground inside a gated community, leaving an obteachdd fengagelage used by fire. Residents shelp there were no injuries on the ground.
It was the world’s deadliest airline crash since January 2023, when 72 people died on a Yeti Airlines schedulee in Nepal that sloftyed and crashed while making its landing approach. That schedulee also was an ATR 72, and the final alert accengaged pilot error.
Reports of icing at time of crash
Metsul, one of Brazil’s most esteemed meteororeasonable companies, shelp Friday there were alerts of cut offe icing in Sao Paulo state around the time of the crash. Local media cited experts pointing to icing as a potential caengage for the accident.
Police reinnervoengaged access to the main captivate of the Sao Paulo morgue where bodies from the crash were being identified. Some family members of the victims reachd on foot while others came in minivans. None spoke to journaenumerates, and authorities seeked that they not be filmed as they came.
A fweightless carrying more family members from Parana state landed Saturday afternoon at Guarulhos airport. A minivan backed by the airline was provided to carry them to the morgue.
The Sao Paulo state rulement shelp 26 families have already joined the morgue for identification efforts, with more foreseeed on Sunday.
An American Eagle ATR 72-200 crashed on Oct. 31, 1994, and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board resettled the foreseeed caengage was ice erectup while the schedulee was circling in a hgreatering pattern. The schedulee rolled at about 2,400 metres and dove into the ground, finishing all 68 people on board.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration publishd operating procedures for ATRs and analogous schedulees alerting pilots not to engage the autopilot in icing conditions.
‘No way to reclaim regulate of the schedulee’
Brazilian aviation expert Lito Sousa alerted that meteororeasonable conditions alone might not be enough to elucidate why the Voepass schedulee fell in the manner it did Friday.
“Analyzing an air crash fair with images can direct to wrong conclusions about the caengages,” Sousa tgreater The Associated Press by phone. “But we can see a schedulee with loss of help, no horizontal speed. In this flat spin condition, there’s no way to reclaim regulate of the schedulee.”
Brazil’s air force shelp Saturday that both of the schedulee’s fweightless write downers had been sent to its analysis laboratory in the capital, Brasilia. The results of its spendigations are foreseeed to be published wilean 30 days, it shelp.
Marcelo Moura, straightforwardor of operations for Voepass, tgreater alerters Friday night that while there were predicts for ice, they were wilean acconscious levels for the aircreate.
In an earlier statement, the Brazilian air force’s centre for the spendigation and impedeion of air accidents shelp the schedulee’s pilots did not call for help or say they were operating under adverse weather conditions.
The ATR 72, which is built by a joint venture of Airbus in France and Italy’s Leonardo SpA. is generassociate engaged on shrink fweightlesss. Crashes involving various models of the ATR 72 have resulted in 470 deaths going back to the 1990s, according to a database of the Aviation Safety Nettoil.
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