The Accident Investigation Bureau with aircraft need government authorization to investigate problem with plane in Lisbon
SOFIA MARTINS SANTOS
The director of the Office of Prevention and Aircraft with Accident Investigation (GPIAA), Álvaro Neves, will request authorization from the Minister Pedro Marques to continue to examine the incident with a plane of TAP at the weekend. The landing gear broke and the case needs to go to a laboratory in France to make the reading of the black boxes.
The director of GPIAA recalled, told TSF, which the organism lives in a financial bottleneck situation. So Álvaro Neves yesterday asked permission from the government to continue the investigation.
BLUE AIRPLANE
The incident with an aircraft with colors of TAP, which was carrying 20 people in connection Porto-Lisbon, made the passengers did not win to scare when one of the landing gear tires burst. The track has even need to be closed. The rugged device is one of the ATR TAP Express brand earlier this year replaced Portugalia. According to the airline, "it is an ATR72, service TAP Express since April 2016.
Previously, it was recorded by the Blue, which received the factory aircraft in December 2015. It is. therefore, a new aircraft, which began operating in the service of TAP Express four months after leaving the factory. "
The incident, however, again raised issues within the sector, which early on questioned both the end of Portugalia, whose operation was handed over to White, as the very purchase of aircraft to Azul, a Brazilian company David Neeleman, one of the shareholders Gateway consortium.
PORTUGÁLIA END
The end of Portugalia was announced this year with the emergence of TAP Express, whose flights were delivered to White, a private company whose president at the time of the operation, was the staff of TAP. The decision created pilots surpluses within the Portugalia and indignation. Rui Moreira, mayor of Porto, was one of the figures most questioned the choice of this company "without public capital involved and no assessment of the Competition Authority".
17 AIRCRAFT
The EuroAtlantic Airways, a private Portuguese airline, TAP admitted process even if it were not explained the delivery of aircraft and routes the carrier White, under the restructuring drawn by the new shareholders of the company flag. Humberto Pedrosa and David Neeleman. According to this company, it should have been a market survey to deliver the operation of Portugalia.
The 17 new aircraft were in accordance with TAP supplied by Blue in leasing, an operation valued at 400 million Atros. Aircraft Blue, who were with little activity in Brazil due to the difficulties in that market, won so new destinations.