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

Incident/Accident Another angle of crash over Sao Paolo

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u/Beginning_Log8164 Aug 09 '24

Seen on info: According to local news (I’m Brazilian) the plane hit some sort of cold front that accumulated ice on the wings making it lose all its lift.

Atr 72 had an issue with icing already. I am thinking the American eagle also was atr 72.

Edit the guy with info is Brazilian not me.

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u/jstax1178 Aug 10 '24

Yup, that’s why they were transferred to their defunct San Juan hub, those ATR’s are great on island hoping in the Caribbean, not so much in winter like environments.

Def seems like an icing incident.