Good answer
This is exactly what I am trying to explain to my non-aviation friends here.
Apparently the weather became somewhat shocking at the time, heavy rain reducing viz to near zero.
On the other hand, I can understand why the conspiracy theories abound, the timing of Teori's death does rightly open some questions.
"Napkin approaches" seem to be common here, about a year ago an ATR from Passaredo (a once big, now small, regional carrier) managed to make a touch and go on a farmer's soy field about a mile short of the runway in Rondonopolis trying to land at a VFR only airfield in IMC, at night with a homemade approach procedure.... Looking at the damage there, the aircraft must have been cms from disaster
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After the "touch and go" the aircraft somehow made it back to the airfield.
Fuel exhaustion has been rife here in South America recently too, Obviously the Lamia, and a little before that a Navaro carrying a well known celebrity and his family made a forced landing due to insufficient fuel.
And, when talking airmanship.... Let's nt forget this gem from Brazil.... the pilot of a Baron, flying solo, leaving the autopilot on and going in to the back of the aircraft to film a video for youtube of te aircraft flying with no pilot at the controls.
I know too many good and responsible pilots here in Brazil to say that all of the behaviours I have mentioned here are normal for the country. But, some of the accident and incident reports we have here are so totally avoidable that frankly, nothing surprises me anymore!