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| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | August 13, 2014 (2014-08-13) |
| Summary | Under investigation |
| Site | Santos, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Cessna Citation 560 XLS+ |
| Operator | Af Andrade Enterprises and Holdings Ltd |
| Registration | PR-AFA |
| Flight origin | Brasilia International Airport, Brasilia |
| Stopover | Londrina Airport, Londrina |
| 1st stopover | Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro |
| Destination | Santos Air Force Base, Santos, Brazil |
| Passengers | 5 |
| Crew | 2 |
| Fatalities | 7 |
| Injuries | 11 on the ground |
| Survivors | 0 |
On 13 August 2014 a Cessna Citation 560 XLS+ crashed whilst carrying Brazilian Socialist Party presidential candidate Eduardo Campos. All seven people aboard the airplane were killed in the accident, which took place around 10 AM BRT while trying to land at Santos Air Force Base, near the city of Santos, São Paulo. The pilot, co-pilot, a reporter, a photographer and two of Mr. Campos' campaign aides were among the dead.
Crash
Early in the campaign/formal debate cycle of the 2014 presidential election season in Brazil on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 09:50:18, the airplane Eduardo Campos was flying in, hit the ground at an urban residential area near 136 Rua Alexandre Herculano, Vahia, Rua de Abreu corner, near the Channel 3, seven blocks from the beach in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. All seven occupants of the Cessna Citation XLS manufactured 2011 Business Jet registered PR-AFA died. (1) Eduardo Campos (2) Pedro Almeida Neto Valadares, 48, a lawyer, was a congressman from the state of Sergipe for three terms. Advisor to the presidential campaign. (3) Alexandre Severo Gomes da Silva, 36, born in Recife. Official photographer of the Campos campaign. (4) Carlos Augusto Ramos Leal Filho, 36 y.o. known as Carlos Percol, married since April 5, 2014 and worked as a counselor. (5) Marcelo de Oliveira Lyra married, had a daughter and worked as official videographer. (6) Magela Gerard Barbosa the wedge 45, a pilot for over 20 years. According to the family, he had accumulated more than 4,000 flight hours. Since June this year, he had worked for the campaign of fields. The wife of Gerard, Joseline da Cunha Amaral, was seven months pregnant. He left a four year old son. (7) Mark Martins, 42, pilot born in Cruzeiro do Oeste, in northern Paraná, formed by the Aero Club of Londrina and Maringa. Mark was married to Flavia Martins, 32, and left two sons.
Campos was due to attend a campaign event at the Port of Santos at 10:30. He had several other meetings in Santos that day and was supposed to fly back that afternoon of Santos Air Base Airport less than 12 kms from the port by road. Possible explanations for the accident are :
(a) Catastrophic mechanical failure. Similar to the Cessna Citation crash Milwaukee June 4, 2007. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq6DSR667Gg (The plane that crashed that day was built in 1981 and was thus 26 years old. Campos's plane PR-AFA was built in 2011.)
(b) Bomb/Sabotage on Board. Jammed ailerons/hydraulics/rudder. Remote controlled activated from the ground. (Best line of sight would be from Monte Serrat. Two opportunities to detonate. Morning and afternoon. Where was the airplane in the hangar before 30 days ?)
(c) Pilot Error. e.g. Wrong turn at high speed. Spatial disorientation ?
(d) Bird or small UAV sucked into the turbine engine created catastrophic failure.
(e) Lightning.
(f) Pilot Suicide/Murder.
(g) Hijacking. One of the passengers took control of the direction of the pilot.
(h) Terrorism. Missiles from the ground.
(i) Weather. Downdraft/severe turbulence.
(j) Ran out of fuel.
(k) Other.
Details of the Flight/Plane
Maximum Rate of Climb - Straight Ascent, no bank = 17.78 meters per second
Rate of Climb - Connect Banking = 8.89 meters per second
Possible Maximum altitude after 12 km arc of ascent = 2610 meters
Estimated altitude after 12 km turn banking arc of ascent = 1330 meters
Arc distance from the center of the runway to just above the crash site = 12 km
Time of first approach runway of 1,330 m above the crash site = 2 minutes. 24 seconds
Height at the lowest point of the runway before going = 50 m
Accelerated to (approx.) = 300 kmh / 5 km p.m.
Speed approached the runway to land first time = 200 kmh / 115 knots
Stall speed of the Cessna Citation XLS = 152 kmh
Terminal Velocity of 6000 kg Business Jet falling from 1,330 m = 574 kmh
Plane angle, nose first to hit the ground. = 80 degrees. Upside Down / Inverted
Following his death, periods of official mourning were decreed by the Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, and in Recife, Pernambuco.
The body of Eduardo Campos was buried in the Santo Amaro cemetery in Recife on 17 August. The ceremonies were attended by President Rousseff and other political leaders; over 100,000 people attended the funeral procession.[
Aftermath
All seven people on board the aircraft were killed, including the former governor of the state of Pernambuco and presidential candidate in the 2014 Brazilian general election on October 5, Eduardo Campos; Pedro Almeida Valadares Neto, political adviser and a former congressman from Sergipe; adviser Carlos Augusto Ramos Leal Filho (known as Carlos Percol); campaign photographer Alexandre Severo Gomes da Silva; campaign cameraman Marcelo de Oliveira Lira; and two pilots, Marcos Martins and Geraldo Cunha. Identification of the remains was carried out through the study of the DNA. The Flight Data Recorders / Cockpit Voice Recorders did not record any of the conversations during the flight before it crashed.
Residents of the local houses were taken to hospital with injuries, one was released immediately, and five others were admitted with minor injuries: two children aged 1 and 9, three women, one of whom is elderly.
References
- "Brazilian Presidential Candidate Killed In Citation Crash | Aviation International News". Ainonline.com. 2014-08-13. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
- Lyons, John (2014-08-13). "Brazilian Presidential Candidate Eduardo Campos Dies in Plane Crash - WSJ". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
- "Expectativa é de que enterro de Campos seja no domingo". Diario de Pernambuco (in Portuguese). No. 14 August 2014. Recife. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- "Corpos de Eduardo Campos e de equipe passarão por exame de DNA". Diario de Pernambuco (in Portuguese). Recife. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
- "Brazil crash: Black box 'did not record Campos flight'". BBC News. 15 August 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
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