Alentejo: GPIAA announces initial findings on light aircraft falling Canhestros.
The Office of Prevention and Accident Investigation Aircraft (GPIAA), revealed data on initial findings on the fall in the afternoon of the last day 19 June, a small plane near Canhestros (Ferreira do Alentejo).
Three of the seven paratroopers who followed the aircraft that crashed into the Alentejo, a week ago, were designed unconscious and only survived thanks to automatic opening of the emergency parachute, He revealed to Lusa responsible research.
According to the director of the Accident Prevention and Investigation Bureau with Aircraft (GPIAA), Álvaro Neves, after the aircraft rear disintegration in flight, the three paratroopers were designed against the structure of the small plane and “They were unconscious before being thrown out, having been saved by automatic opening of the emergency parachute barometric”, and the remaining four “They managed to jump and manually trigger their parachute”.
Already the pilot, a Belgian, of 27 year old, that died, “It was expelled in the air than the left part of the aircraft's cockpit and crashed about 400 meters from the site of the cabin impact without having had time to trigger the parachute”, reads a note on the incident published on the Internet site of GPIAA.
“The structural disintegration of the aircraft in flight is the first hypothesis as the main cause of the accident”, Álvaro Neves reaffirmed Lusa, noting that four of the seven parachutists were injured, two serious and two minor.
Second briefing note, to aircraft, do modelo Pilatus PC6, operated by the company Aerovip, unglued, last day 19, a clear day, without clouds, with light wind and temperature around 32 ° C, Figueira Knights Aerodrome, in Ferreira do Alentejo county, no Beja district, with eight people on board, a pilot and seven parachutists, for instruction and flight training paratroopers, taking off and starting an ascent to altitude 14.000 feet.
According to the testimony of one of the parachutists, reads the document, during a initial rise, at the rate of 1.000 feet per minute, to cross the 7.000 feet uphill, “It began to be heard a noise from / rip the metal, the aircraft was “subjected to an instantaneous nose turn on and, suddenly, the entire rear part of the structure disintegrated”.
Witnesses on the ground, to aircraft, at the time of disintegration, “He began to spin on its axis, dispersing the components in a wooded area of a private property”.
The disintegration of the remaining parts of the aircraft “It was going to the final impact with the ground” and the fragments were found in a length of approximately 1.500 meters in a range of about 500 m and were “widely dispersed, presenting an alignment with the direction of flight, from west to east”.
Second or GPIAA, the notice has “provisionally” and “only a summary of events” and is subject to change during the process of security research on the causes of the accident, which “not intended to apportion blame or establish accountability, but only the collection of teachings susceptible to avoid future accidents”.
A aircraft, with capacity for 10 people, He had German license and belonged to a German private operator, but it was being used by 7Air Group, which holds the Aerovip and skydiving company Skyfall, the promoter flight.
In a statement sent to Lusa, the Skyfall and 7Air Group praised the “professionalism and altruism” pilot, stating that, with its action, “It has contributed to that not they are incurred more fatalities”.
Source of 7Air Group also revealed Lusa that the pilot's body “It was found with the loaded parachute”, equipment that was also being used by the seven paratroopers who followed the aircraft.
