Brazilian soccer team plane crash.
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I had a feeling it wasn't going to be the national team because they would probably fly first class on a major airline and not some small airline that uses a plane that went out of production 15 years ago (BAe 146, a.k.a. RJ85)..
They said the pilot reported an electrical problem but then they say they declared a fuel emergency. Judging by pics of the crash site it looks like there wasn't any fire so that would indicate no fuel on board when it crashed. Also they said the flight tested the limits of the distance that aircraft can fly.
They said the pilot reported an electrical problem but then they say they declared a fuel emergency. Judging by pics of the crash site it looks like there wasn't any fire so that would indicate no fuel on board when it crashed. Also they said the flight tested the limits of the distance that aircraft can fly.
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Yes that's the saddest part, that it could have been avoided. Its hard to believe that an airliner can still crash because it ran out of fuel in this day and age. I mean how could the pilots not know they were on empty. Ther last time I remember this happening was in the 1980's. It was a British Midland 737. Before that it happened in 1990 to an Air Avianca 707 (I think it was a 707).
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A broken gauge or faulty sensor wouldn't cause the plane to crash. They declared a fuel emergency. It has happened before in that 1990 Avianca crash where the pilots declared a fuel emergency but it was too late and the plane crashed killing everyone on board. The pilots misjudged how much longer they could fly. Airplane engines can become starved of fuel even before the needle hits empty because the plane's attitude (nose high or low) could cause the fuel to gather on one side of the tank. And once a jet engine shuts down it takes a long time to get it restarted.
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Ok I just read some new info. Turns out they were supposed to stop along the way to refuel but they were delayed 50 minutes before they could takeoff so the pilots decided to skip the refueling and fly straight to their desitnation which was at the limit of the published range for that aircraft. They didn't have any reserve fuel for being in a holding pattern and the pilot's requests to land immediately due to low fuel were ignored.
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Yikes. I heard about this earlier today, but I didn't know this had happened. I has assumed there was a mechanical issue. That's a really unfortunate lapse in judgement. Now, I'm starting to wonder if pilots and crews push fuel limits sometimes. I won't be so relaxed on my next flight 