Panel anticipated to name on a number of key figures in bid to forestall repeat of lethal crash north of Sao Paulo.
Brazil’s Congress has introduced the formation of a committee to supervise an investigation right into a aircraft crash earlier this month that killed 62 individuals.
Decrease Home Speaker Arthur Lira authorised the set up of a 37-person committee final week, tasked with monitoring an inquiry by Cenipa, a physique that investigates aviation accidents.
The decrease home is anticipated to determine who to summon to talk earlier than the panel on Tuesday.
“Our intention is to not perform a witch-hunt,” Congressman Nelsinho Padovani mentioned. “We need to suggest measures so it doesn’t occur once more.”
The tragic incident, by which an ATR 72-500 aircraft operated by the regional airline Voepass crashed within the city of Vinhedo about 80km (50 miles) north of Sao Paulo, is Brazil’s deadliest aviation accident in additional than a decade.
Padovani instructed Reuters information company that the committee is anticipated to summon figures akin to Voepass President Jose Luiz Felicio Filho, Cenipa head Marcelo Moreno, and the top of Brazil’s civil aviation regulator ANAC, Tiago Sousa Pereira, to talk earlier than the panel. These invited to talk usually are not obligated to look earlier than the committee.
Whereas Cenipa is anticipated to launch preliminary findings of its investigation by September 6, the Congressional committee will maintain hearings till December and expects to challenge a report in February.
The circumstances that led to the August 9 crash stay unsure, with movies of the aftermath exhibiting burning particles from the aircraft scattered throughout the bottom.
Some consultants have advised that the crash might have been a results of ice accumulating on the wings of the aircraft, inflicting the pilot to lose management.
A number of such incidents have occurred when ATR planes gathered ice on their wings previously.
“In the intervening time, there isn’t any additional remark we are able to add because the story develops,” a spokesperson for ATR mentioned of the committee, including that they “proceed following the scenario rigorously”.
The aircraft was en path to Sao Paulo from the Cascavel airport within the southern state of Parana.
