The passengers of the flight AD2610 They had a big scare after the Azul airline plane in which they were traveling it will take a while to take off and it will remain a few meters from crashing into a series of buildings. The incident occurred last Monday at the airport Congonhas of Sao Paulo, Brazilon a ship that had as its final destination Rio de Janeiro.
Images spread on social networks managed to capture the entire last stretch of the plane’s journey along the runway, where it begins to gain speed but does not separate from the ground. Several seconds later it enters an area known as Stopwaymade of a special cement, which allows the wheels to sink and the plane to brake before the airport area ends.
Fortunately, shortly before the mark of the right header 17, 100 meters from the end, The plane managed to take flight and began its climb smoothly and normally, leaving behind the buildings on Washington Luis Avenue and completing the entire flight without any problems. However, if this had not been the case, the ship would have crashed into the city and caused a tragedy.
Following the incident, the airline initiated a investigation in order to determine what failed and prevented the correct takeoff.
The plane was a Embraer E195with capacity for 118 passengersand almost 11 years of service. Due to its small size, it is assumed that I didn’t have that much fuel in his tank, so there should have been no difficulties in carrying out the initial maneuver.
In any case, aviation experts highlighted that Congonhas does not have large slopes: the longest of all measures 1,940 meters. This also posed a challenge for the pilot, even having been assigned this route.
After seeing these images, the neighbors breathed a sigh of relief but could not help but remember the plane crash in July 17, 2007 in which All 187 passengers and 12 airport officials died.
That Tuesday, the TAM Airbus A320 in charge of flight JJ3054 took off from Porto Alegre bound for Saint Paul. After a service that passed normally, the ship landed in Congonhas but The pilots were unable to brake and continued the journey, going off the runway, crossing the Avenue and, finally, crashing into an airline hangar..
A few seconds later the sequence ended with a strong explosion and impressive flames that consumed the entire plane. The ship had just refueled, which made the situation worse. The Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents determined in 2009 that human and technical factors caused the accident, considered the biggest commercial aviation tragedy in Brazilfor which no one was held responsible.
“Total frustration, that’s what I feel, we wanted justice but it’s David against Goliath,” said the relative of one of the victims 10 years after the incident. “The decision really causes surprise because there were problems on the track the day before, there were reports of danger (…) there was negligence,” added a man who lost his 14-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, the Association of Relatives of Flight Victims maintained that “justice was manipulated” and spoke of a series of elements such as flaps, handles and weight, which support their statements.
