By: Jessica Sun

On Friday, a eighty nine foot plane crashed on its belly in Brazil. It had killed fifty eight passengers plus four crew members. The flight was from Cascavel, Brazil, to São Paulo. The plane crashed in Vinhedo, Brazil. Thankfully, no one on the ground was injured or killed.

Brazilian investigators began searching the black boxes from the São Paulo-bound flight to find out how the plane fell from 17,000 feet in the air.

Experts around the world rewatched the videos of the plane multiple times and found the answer: the plane had stalled, which means something happened to the plane’s wings that made it lose its lift causing it to fall and stop flying. “You can’t get into a spin without stalling,” said John Cox, an airline pilot for 25 years who now aids plane crash investigations. “It’s A plus B equals C.”

We know why VoePass Flight 2283 crashed but we still don’t know what caused the plane to stall.
“The main thing we know is that it’s never one thing,” said Thomas Anthony, director of the aviation safety program at the University of Southern California.

The investigators said that they had found the two black boxes. One had the recordings for the cockpit and the other contained the flight data.

“There is still no estimated completion date for this work,” Marcelo Moreno, Brazil’s chief crash investigator, said. “We are prioritizing quality over speed.”

The theory why the plane stalled is that ice formed on the wings of the plane or other parts, increasing its weight.