For those of you who haven't yet seen, there was a pretty major plane crash last night, involving an Avro RJ85, which was built in 1999. The plane was operated by charter airline LAMIA, and was carrying a Brazilian soccer team from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to Medellin, Colombia. The plane lost radar contact at ~15,500…
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This is so sad. Literally minutes before the news broke out, I was talking to friends about meeting up to watch the soccer final on Wednesday.
Looking at the crash debris field photo - no sign of fire - must have been extremely low on fuel.
@Dave the Paraguayan pilot actually dumped the fuel before the crash, which likely saved the lives of the six survivors. Huge tragedy.
Very very sad news!!!! I am a huge soccer fan and have followed the story if this team very close since they were an example of a well managed organization and got where they were by their own merits.
This is story is extremely heartbreaking, and it would be just as heartbreaking even if the people who died were not famous soccer players.
@Justin I thought that the Avro RJ85 Cannot dump fuel at all. So to me its more fuel starvation here.
The distance of the flight they took really reaches the maximum range this aircraft can fly.
It will be very interesting to find out what happened here.
But still, very sad for everyone.
Less than two weeks ago was planning out my trip to TNR and JNB. SAA flies direct TNR-JNB on an RJ85, and having never heard of the type, I looked up incidents. Nothing significant prior to this, but a couple of fuel emergencies and engine failures.
This is a very very sad news. Stars from the soccer team got dead and it's true , these soccer players were not well known by name but they could be the future's star.
@Joe the RJ85 is descended (no pun intended) from the British Aerospace BAe 146. It's chief performance highlight is being able to operate from airports with short runways while still being reasonably economical for the operator.
Its safety record is very good, with the proviso that it's operated safely by the carrier, which should go without saying.