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A passenger plane crashed in Brazil, probably due to freezing. Experts have said this on the basis of the weather conditions at the time of the plane crash and the technical flaws and complications found in the plane.
The plane’s black box containing the pilots’ conversations and flight data has been found in the cockpit. Based on the analysis of this data, something can be said. Officials at Brazil’s civil aviation ministry said it would take a month to compile a report based on an analysis of black box data.
On Friday, a passenger plane of the Brazilian airline Vopas crashed in the outskirts of Sao Paulo. The plane was preparing to land when it lost contact with the control tower and then disappeared from the radar.
The Brazilian Air Force has said that the plane’s pilots did not make any emergency calls. There was no apparent malfunction in the plane. Experts have said that the plane that suffered the accident was an ATR 272 Turboprop. There have been complaints of ice formation in these planes.