Data recovered from black box of plane that crashed in Brazil

Those responsible for investigating the plane crash that claimed 62 lives on Friday in the Brazilian state of São Paulo said on Sunday, August 11, that they have recovered all the information contained in the black boxes of the plane that crashed in the garden of a house.

“On Sunday morning we achieved 100% success in obtaining voice and data information from the recorders (black boxes) in the moments leading up to the accident,” said the director of the Center for Investigation and Prevention of Air Accidents (Cenipa) of the Brazilian Air Force, Brigadier General Marcelo Moreno.

They will analyze the data from the black box

Speaking at a press conference in Vinhedo, where the accident occurred, the officer said that investigators will now begin to analyse all the data extracted to try to discover the causes of the accident.

“The work has only just begun. The data has been obtained and validated and now we have to transform this huge amount of data into useful information for society,” he said.

Marcelo Moreno did not provide any information and promised to deliver “in up to 30 days” a first report with the data obtained and that can clarify much of what happened with the Voepass airline plane.

The two recorders, one a voice recorder with conversations in the cockpit and another a data recorder with all the flight information, were recovered on Friday night and sent on Saturday to Cenipa’s main laboratory in Brasilia.

Recovery of bodies concludes

The general said yesterday that it is still premature to comment on the different hypotheses that specialists have put forward regarding the causes of the accident, the main one of which is the possible accumulation of ice on the wings of the aircraft, which would explain its spin.

Meanwhile, the teams that had been working on the rescue since Friday completed the recovery of the bodies of the 62 victims on Saturday night and transferred them to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in São Paulo, where two have already been identified.

According to the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), both the aircraft and the crew were in regular operating condition and all required certificates were up to date.

There were 58 passengers and 4 crew members on board.

The crashed plane, a French-made twin-engine ATR-72-500, was flying between Cascavel and São Paulo with 58 passengers and 4 crew on board and crashed about 80 kilometres from its destination.

Despite landing in a residential area, the aircraft crashed in the backyards of a residential complex without damaging any buildings or leaving any victims on the ground.

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