Part of any investigation by the UK AAIB is a report on the physical condition of the aircrew. The TV interviews before takeoff display a party atmosphere; I presume that a p.m. is planned to exclude any suspicion of alcohol being involved.

By the way, the company name, "La Mia",would be translated as "Mine", referring to a female object.

Idle Descent
 

Perhaps previous flights "worked" with a straight in descent at flight idle. It would be interesting to see the previous fuel upload numbers at Medillin:eek:

We glider folk will do straight in final glides with tight margins. Sometimes they do not work according to plan, but in daylight we just pick a field - not a good plan in the dark in a heavy:mad:

http://www.atb.com.bo/seccion/socied...de-chapecoense

From ATB Digital:

"Alex Richard Quispe Garcia, era despachador de vuelo de LaMia, tenía 39 años. Su formación como despachador fue realizada en La Paz, curso sus estudios secundarios en Uyuni, en el Colegio Nacional Antonio Quijarro, donde se destaco jugando fútbol. Estaba casado con Flora Tarqui Ávila y tenía un hijo. "

http://www.atb.com.bo/seccion/sociedad/boliviana-sobrevive-tragedia-del-accidente-aéreo-de-chapecoense

Mary M, you can probably eliminate alcohol altogether. It would not have been allowed in a high level Brazilian football environment, least of all with a few dozen journalists watching. I'd wager blood alcohol content in the PM wil result in nil, crew and pax.

At what altitude are they said to have deployed landing gear? I can't see a reference to it anywhere (due, no doubt, to just not finding it)

Yes. Some are 43,998 kg. 77 POB plus full tanks shouldn't pose any take-off weight problems.

Interesting China-Venezuela link and lots of questions has been posted up earlier.

https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin...amia-airlines/

http://www.pprune.org/9594371-post151.html

The FDR information may be able to determine that.

According to a translation of this site:
Despachador de Lamia estaba advertido sobre problemas en plan de vuelo - El Colombiano

"At a press conference held on Thursday morning, Milton Claros, Minister of Public Works of Bolivia, announced the suspension of several directors of the Administration of Airports and Auxiliary Services for Air Navigation (Aasana) and of the General Directorate of Aeronautics Civil (Dgac) of that country, under the pretext of giving transparency to the internal investigation. He did not specify how many would be affected by the measure.

According to the report of the local daily El Deber, Claro also reported on the suspension of air operator certificate enterprise services Lamia (with which counted since July 2015).


He said that the hypothesis about the lack of fuel that caused the electrical fault in the plane is "subjective", and asked to await the results of the official study of the case."

It's a story right up William Langewiesche's alley. He did a couple of comprehensive pieces for Vanity Fair about both AF447 and the Gol/Legacy mid-air. He has extensive ties to Brazil, and I suppose it's only a matter of time before the real extent of this mess is exposed in VF.

By the way, according to the BBC, LaMia's AOC has been suspended. It seems pointless since they don't seem to have any operational capability left, but perhaps this is a precursor to more severe legal action. In any case, a few days late, 71 lives short. :ugh:

Though a bit of digging around suggests that when the aircraft in question was flying for CityJet it was certificated at 42,184 kg (93,000 lb).

So unless it had the higher-weight (97,000 lb) mods embodied subsequently, the lower weights would presumably still apply.

Having said that, I haven't seen any suggestion that the aircraft departed with less than full tanks - the loadsheet would make interesting reading.

The same article says the aircraft was partly owned by the pilot!! Curious and curiouser.

Hopefully the person who leaked the flight plan will oblige.

Nightstop wrote:It is incredible that people claiming such high experience - as a captain! - can totally misunderstand the physics of flight so badly.

Does the contributor honestly believe this nonsense, or are they just trying for a cheap laugh?

Did he ever try to explain to Bob Hoover that the video of him pouring the iced tea was impossible, and we were unwitting victims of a cruel hoax? Unbelievable!

Not sure what football team would be getting drunk on the way to the biggest match in their history. Celebratory, happy atmosphere yes, party? I can't see it.

The most surprising thing about this thread is the lack of understanding of Latin culture. Larger operators, sure, they're mostly legit...but this one-horse show with a pretty private-pilot girl filmed in the left seat prior to departure wearing three stripes; pilot/owner selfies all over social media throwing up gang signs, etc.....this disaster should come as no surprise whatsoever. And I mean it was probably long overdue.

It seems like declaring an emergency could have saved the day. I'm looking into exactly this topic for quite a while now and it seems there is very little knowledge about why pilots seem so reluctant to declare.

Although in this case there are quite a few "obvious" reasons why the owner/pilot did not declare, does anyone know of some proper research / reports why (also GA) pilots do not declare, when they clearly need a maximum of help.

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One of the most sensible posts I have seen on this tragedy. Most contributors to this thread would simply not believe what goes on in the name of aviation in these countries.