Lack Of Fuel And Overweight Causes Of Chapecoense

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

On Monday, Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia revealed the preliminary analysis of the two black boxes of the Lamia airline plane that crashed in Antioquia on November 28 where 71 people died, including journalists and soccer players from the Chapecoense team.

According to Fredy Bonilla, Aerocivil Security Secretary confirmed that the main cause of the accident was the lack of fuel. The cockpit recording shows how the pilot and co-pilot discussed the possibility of stopping because they no longer had fuel, however, they did not. "They were aware that the fuel they had was neither adequate nor sufficient," Bonilla said. "It should have an hour and 30 minutes more (of fuel) than the flight time in standard form regarding its flight autonomy".

In addition to lack of fuel, the plane was overweight and flying at an altitude that was not authorized. "The actual takeoff weight was 42,148 kilos, which means it was over its maximum weight of 41,800 kilos."

A few days ago the Bolivian authorities pointed out the pilot and the company that owns the airline as responsible for the accident.

It will be until April 2017 that the final conclusions of the incident will be announced.