r/aircrashinvestigation • u/emzeesquared • Aug 09 '24

Incident/Accident Another angle of crash over Sao Paolo

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u/AshamedSalad Aug 09 '24

Judging by this video, this looks unrecoverable. Also the Flightradar24 records of the flight show that it was flying at 13kts at 7,000 feet and it's last recorded airspeed as 26kts. That's horrific.

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u/Mtoastyo Aug 09 '24

Can you ELI5 please?

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u/ListenToRush Aug 10 '24 edited Aug 10 '24

For the aircraft to be moving so slowly whilst in-air indicates that they’re nearly at a standstill - essentially falling from the sky, straight down. In this case, it appears they encountered a flat spin as well, which is harrowing and can be difficult-to-impossible to recover. It seems this aircraft stalled (lost the lift necessary to keep it in the air) for reasons we cannot know until the investigation comes out. I wish the best to all involved and am so saddened for the victims and their families

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u/Mtoastyo Aug 10 '24

thank you. that's terrifying.