The BEA, the official French body responsible for analysing air accidents, announced today that it is taking part in the investigation opened in Brazil into the Voepass plane that crashed on Friday in the state of São Paulo, killing 62 people.
In a message on its account on the X social network, the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (Civil Aviation Safety Inquiries and Analyses Service) announced its participation in the process opened by the Brazilian Centre for Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (Cenipa), indicating in particular that five of its experts are on the ground, accompanied by technical advisors from aircraft manufacturer Airbus.
The plane that crashed was a 72-500 turboprop manufactured by ATR, a joint subsidiary of Airbus and the Italian company Leonardo, which has its assembly plant in the French city of Toulouse.
The plane can carry 68 passengers and has a range of up to 772 nautical miles (around 1,430 kilometers).
The Voepass aircraft was travelling between the city of Cascavel and São Paulo, with 58 passengers and four crew members on board, and crashed some 80 kilometers from its destination.
Despite crashing in a residential area, the plane landed in the backyards of a group of houses without hitting any buildings or causing any more casualties.
Among the 62 dead is a Portuguese woman.
The information contained in the plane's black boxes has already been recovered by the technicians in charge of the investigation, who were "100 per cent successful in obtaining voice information and data from the recorders in the moments leading up to the crash", according to Cenipa's director, Brigadier General Marcelo Moreno.
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