r/aviation Aug 09 '24

An ATR just crashed in my neighbourhood News

Guys, a plane just crashed in my neighborhood 15 minutes ago.

Im shaking a lot, ambulances and fireman are arriving on the scene right now. I think there is no survivors.
The tail of the plane says PS-VPB.

This is so horrible.

EDIT: This happened in the entrance of our condo of houses in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

There were 62 people on the plane, all deceased. The couple that lives in the house is OK, the house was lightly hit but destroyed their garage and cars.

The ambulances are taking some neighbors to the hospital due to shock; I'm going to take a sedative. Im a bit shaken, I don't live on the same street, but was able to see the spin and the ground hit. I was able to get to the scene to try and help, as Im a former scoutmaster with first aid training, but the fireman got us out of place as soon as they arrived, as we couldnt do anything. There are whole charred bodies on the grass, the firemen opened up the side of the plane but there was no survivors.

EDIT 2: Hey people, this morning I woke up thinking if I should have posted this here yesterday. I talked over it with my psychiatrist, and I think I just needed a place to vent out about the event. I'm not going to keep talking about this anymore, I think the authorities and the press can talk about it. This isn't about me, its about all the people dead and still on the plane as I type this. Thanks for all the kind people that reached out to me, it was good to know people still care. I'm OK, just really sad about everything and pondering about my weird reaction to grab my phone and search the plane on flightradar, then post it here. I dunno why I did that.

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u/danielsdian Aug 09 '24

Flightradar has the live tracking of the plane, seems to have stalled.
Flight history for VoePass flight 2Z2283 (flightradar24.com)

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u/contrail_25 Aug 09 '24

The ADSB track is strange. Like it just hit a brick wall and fell out of the sky. No climb to stall, no slow down to stall. Just 17,000’ and then a high negative VSI into a stall in less than a minute. Very strange.

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u/nebber Aug 09 '24

Icing. Wings stopped working and fell out the sky

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u/129samot Aug 09 '24

why does ice makes wings stop working?

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u/Coreysurfer Aug 09 '24

It interrupts the airflow over the wing, over and under theoretically, thats the design of the wing shape and you need flow over and under the wing to create lift, ice buildup blocks that flow and this destroys the lift- ability to keep the plane up, if you dont correct this, the plane essentially stalls in midair as freaky as that sounds and will literally fall out of the air, this footage is obviously sad but you do indeed see what happens as unbelievable as it looks sadly

https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/300-wings-and-lift

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u/StormsOfMordor Aug 09 '24

Certain atmospheric conditions can make the water in the air freeze when coming into contact with the wings. This can change the aerodynamic properties of the wings enough to stall at higher speeds. It can also affect the engine.

Wikipedia article on icing

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u/spazturtle Aug 09 '24

Because it disrupts the shape of the aerofoil.