um youtuber postou um vídeo voando no ATR 72 da voepass 11 dias atrás
— Broca (@alexcrfla) August 9, 2024
olhem esse trecho pic.twitter.com/7EGoQlLQhV
On July 28th some rando Brazilian YouTuber named Lucas Estevam flew on a ATR-72 by voepass and posted a video on it. The original title of the video was "The Danger of flying on a Voepass ATR-72 - old Passaredo - is it safe or dangerous?
He changed it to "Flying on a Voepass ATR-72 How is it to fly on Passaredo?" Yesterday after the crash
Translating the Twitter excerpt for you guys
!macacos agora as gays foram longe demais! Botando pé-frio nessa linha aérea
Also, he starts his youtube video with
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Why was there a doubt that the plane was dangerous?
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It's French.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Eagle_Flight_4184
Holy shit, the ice issue again. The investigation it's still early but everything so far points to icing.
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Like 4 out of 13 listed accidents are specifically because of ice, including that first one. I'm noticing a pattern
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There's a whole episode of that air crash show about it that you might want to watch. TLDR: There was a long thorough investigation of this and they found out that the ATR's wing has a flawed design that makes it prone to icing. They made some improvements but it's still dangerous if you get into the wrong situation. Everyone has known this for decades.
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It's a turboprop and many people are afraid of flying them as it feels a bit more turbulent than jets due to the ceiling altitude being lower, and the plane being lighter.
That doesn't mean they're not safe (they are safe) but they feel "rougher" than jets on bad weather and they're also noisier.
!engineering
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I dunno about the rest of the world but these smaller regional planes crashes way more often in America. It's not because they're bad planes. The pilots are less experienced and they have to take off and land way more often, which is when the vast majority of crashes happen.
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Most plane crashes in South America are small monoplanes like Cessnas 172. At least in Brazil commercial planes crashes are thankfully very rare, the last one before the recent tragedy was the TAM flight 2034 which crashed during landing at the Congonhas airport in São Paulo, it was an Airbus A320. There was also a private jet crash in 2014 during which a Presidential Candidate (Eduardo Campos) died, you can guess the conspiracy theories.
I can see that happening. Speaking for myself I never flew on a turboprop plane, but my dad did like 10 years ago, a regional flight of some 500 miles, they crossed a storm and he said it was awful and that there was a woman yelling "WE'RE GONNA DIE!" During a strong turbulence. I also experienced a rough landing passing through a very strong thunderstorm on a regional flight coming from Buenos Aires a couple of years ago, pilots are supposed to circumvent them but our pilots that time when through it. After that I refused to fly on that airline again lol.
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That's just like up here. The the big airlines flying long distance routes virtually never crash. The regional airlines crash rarely. "General aviation" we call it, small planes like a Cessna, they're like 20 times more likely to crash.
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