Brazil crash pilots 'fighting until the very end': Captain | Vargas Reports

Almost 600 people have died in the AT-72. They will blame the pilot but there is a problem with this aircraft.

Oh these poor passengers and crew members knowing they were going to crash with the Crew trying everything they could 😢 Prayers and love to the Familys 🙏🏼💕

Those poor people, God bless them and their families. Hopefully, nobody suffered, they mustve known they were falling though. I can't even imagine.

All 61 lives were perished in a blink of an eye. May you all rest in peace 😢

thank you Elizabeth Vargas for asking all the questions I would want to know at this early stage. If it’s any consolation I believe the soul leaves the body before impact such as this. Still…💜💕💜

To many reporters questioning and not reporting the news. Very sad news...

Pilots are awesome, they will fight to save the aircraft and lives until the final second. Condolences to the bereaved. May all on board find peace in the spiritual realm. 🌹 🕯🥀 💐💔 🦋 🕊.

That type of plane is not really safe

It hit the ground at over 180 mph/300 kmh

I'm a physics professor. It sounds like the female captain actually knows what she is talking about.

It's not just a matter of lowering the nose to recover from a stall like you're trained on more conventional aircraft designs. An aircraft like the ATR has a T tail, aircraft with this type of design is very unforgiving when you enter a stall, particularly to the degree of the one in this fatal accident, a flat stall. In a situation like that, the only likely way to recover would be moving the center of gravity forward, to potentially aid in rolling the nose over the horizon, lowering the pitch and angle of attack, which would create aerodynamic lift, allowing pilots to regain positive control of the aircraft. In order for that to happen in this specific scenario, several passengers sitting in the back of the airplane would have to move all the way forward against the flight deck door in order to pull this hail Mary without any effective aerodynamic controls. But I don't believe this has ever been tested. They simply didn't have enough time to even think about that. Pilots became mere passengers. This type of stall is usually unrecoverable. Such a sad day for aviation worldwide. My heart goes out to the friends and family of the passengers and crew members who lost their lives in this horrible accident. 😢

So tragic to begin with. More tragic to crash in a residential area and jeopardize more civilians.

0:45 "didn't have enough altitude" 17,000 ft... IF there's any way to recover that's enough room to do it. You could recover the space shuttle from a spin in that much altitude. That wasn't a normal spin. That was a flat spin. Near pinwheeling about a point inside the fuselage. Tail near level with the nose. Wings near level. A condition you DO NOT WANT TO ALLOW TO OCCUR. Generally aircraft design and operation limits are intended to make that flat spin impossible to occur accidentally. I suspect that whatever else was going on... it was loaded with too much weight to the rear.

Very Sad.... A call for an in-depth ATR certification review should be made as soon as possible by the regulators.

This is honestly the dumbest analysis of this crash.

What about that flat spin made Elizabeth Vargas think about a corkscrew?

She didn’t really answer the icing question.

Fighting with each other, then fighting to keep the plane in the air.

E. Vargas? Wasn't she on a mainstream network?

Icing, reminds me of American Airlines crash of ATR.