Video shared on social media showed what appeared to be the ATR-made plane spinning out of control as it plunged down behind a cluster of trees near houses, followed by a large plume of black smoke. The video of the mid-afternoon crash also appeared to show clear weather, though the forecast for the area called for light rainfall and winds of just 10 km per hour (6 mph). City officials at Valinhos, near Vinhedo, said there were no survivors and only one home in the local condominium complex had been damaged while none of the residents were hurt.

  • Cephalotrocity
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    1 month ago

    Icing, in the tropics, at altitudes a prop plane flies? Citation please.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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      1 month ago

      hahahah, christ. when you go up high into the air, it gets colder!

      ftfa:

      Brazilian aviation engineer and crash investigator Celso Faria de Souza told Reuters that a buildup of ice could have caused the plane to stall and spiral in the way that it did.