2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The pilot of the plane of the Bolivian company Lamia that crashed last Monday with 81 people on board alerted in a dramatic conversation with the control tower that they suffered a "total electrical failure" and were "out of fuel".
The British-made aircraft was transporting the Brazilian team Chapecoense, who had to play the first round of the Copa Sudamericana final against Atlético Nacional in the Colombian city.
In the recording broadcast by Colombian media, the following dialogue is heard between the plane's captain, Miguel Alejandro Quiroga, and the controller that directed air traffic at the Medellín airport, to which he had requested priority to land.
Pilot: Miss Lamia 933 is in total failure, total electrical failure, out of fuel.
Control tower: Runway clear and waiting for rain on the surface, Lamia 933, alerted firefighters.
Pilot: Vectors miss, vectors to the track.
Control tower: The signal was lost, I do not have it, notify me of course now.
Pilot: We are heading 3-6-0, heading 3-6-0.
Control tower: Turn left 0-1-0. Proceed to the locator of the Ríonegro edge one mile in front of the Bora (…) I confirm on the left heading 3-5-0.
Pilot: Left 3-5-0 miss.
Control tower: Yes, correct. You are one mile from the Rimonegro edge.
Control tower: I do not have it with the altitude Lamia 933.
Pilot: 9 thousand feet miss. Vectors, vectors!
Control tower: You are 8.2 miles from the track. How high is it now?
Control tower: Lamia 933, position?
This is the recording of the exchange between the aircraft and the tower.
After losing contact with the controllers, the plane crashed into a mountain near Medellín, a few minutes' flight from the airport. Among the passengers were 22 Chapecoense players, as well as executives, journalists and crew members.
So far there are only 5 survivors, the journalist Rafael Henzel, the stewardess Ximena Suárez, the coach Erwin Turimi and the footballers Alan Rushel and Jackson Follmann, who had their right leg amputated to save his life.
The conversation between the pilot and the control tower credits the fuel theory as the root of the cause that led to the incident.
In any case, the Colombian authorities are continuing with the investigation, which could take a great step forward once the black boxes are recovered, recording conversations in the pilots' cockpit and data on the operation of the aircraft.
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