ATR Crash in Bazil
 

I have just heard about a ATR crash in brazil from the Aviation Safety Network.

Anybody knows something else?

Date: 14 SEP 2002
Time: ca 05.00
Type: ATR-42-312
Operator: TOTAL Linhas Aéreas
Registration: PT-MTS
C/n: 026
Year built: 1986
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120
Crew: 2 fatalities / 2 on board
Passengers: 0 fatalities / 0 on board
Total: 2 fatalities / 2 on board
Location: near Paranapanema, SP (Brazil)
Phase: Cruise
Nature: Freight
Departure airport: São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, SP (GRU)
Destination airport: Londrina Airport, PR (LDB)
Remarks:
The ATR-42 departed São Paulo at 04.40h in the morning for a mail flight to Londrina. Twenty minutes later the airplane crashed in a field near Paranapanema.

I think the cause was a runway stabilizer.

Arans.

ATR has fixed stabilizer, so runaway stab is not an option.

Are you just guessing Arans, or you know something that the rest of us don't? Please share, if it's so.

Not gesting buddy , the real cause was a runway stabilizer. The copilot was alone in the cockpit when the problem begun , the captain had no enough time to help him.

Stabs fixed as far as I remember:confused: :confused: Admitedly it's been 6 yrs since I flew -42 and -72!!

'Runaway' opposed to 'Runway' seems the more appropriate term, and Aran could be referring to elevator trim runaway although no sources are listed.