By: Emila Zhang

On Friday, August 10th, VoePass Flight 2283 fell 17,000 feet in Vinhedo, Brazil, in a crash that killed all 62 people on the plane. TResearchers and government officials continue to inspect the two black boxes on board the plane and are trying to figure out how this 89-foot plane just fell from the sky.

According to the New York Times, the most possible thing that happened was that the plane had been stalled. Stalling is when an aircraft’s weight is too heavy to be supported by its wings, causing a breakdown of the airflow over the wing into a turbulent one, resulting in a decrease in lift. So, the airplane sinks and crashes. Though, it remains a mystery why and how the plane stalled, which raised some theories.

Varing theories include: did the nose pitch up too high? Was there ice on its wings? Did one engine stop working? Did the anti-stall system fail? John Cox, who was a pilot for 25 years, now helps investigators on plane crashes.

“You can’t get into a spin without stalling,” Cox said “It’s A plus B equals C.”

On Friday, the plane had 52 travelers on board, with four crew members from Cascavel, Brazil, to São Paulo, which was a two-hour flight. Everything was under control until the plane crashed into a gated residential neighborhood in the city of Vinhedo, after reaching its destination. Investigators have found the plane’s two black boxes, which have the aircraft’s data and recordings.

Celso Faria de Souza, is a Brazilian engineer and expert in plane crashes.

“The way the aircraft fell, spinning out of control, is characteristic of someone who lost the functionality of the wing and the aircraft controls,” Souza said. “This can happen because of ice.”

Icing is a form of stalling. Icing is the leading theory among officials. The mystery is that if there were ice on the wings, the pilots would have started the anti–icing system.

All passenger planes have a system to break the ice to prevent icing.

“Did the crew activate the anti-icing system?” asked Jeff Guzzetti, a former crash investigator with the Federal Aviation Administration. “Or did they activate it, and it failed? “

Experts and Scientists searched through the crash, hoping to find living victims, and found 42 of the 62 people dead.