Latest news Voice recorder found after plane crash in Brazil

Following the crash of a passenger plane in a residential area in the greater São Paulo metropolitan area in Brazil, the voice recorder has been found alongside the flight data recorder. 61 people died in the accident. This was announced by the Brazilian air force Força Aérea Brasileira (FAB). Whether both devices - the so-called black box - can provide information about the cause of the crash depends on the degree of their damage, it said. The analysis will be carried out as soon as possible.

The VoePass airline aircraft - an ATR 72 turboprop passenger plane - crashed on Friday on its flight from Cascavel in the state of Paraná to São Paulo shortly before reaching its destination in a residential area of the small town of Vinhedo. Data from the Flightradar 24 platform suggests that the aircraft descended almost 4,000 meters in less than a minute.

Experts are also considering the formation of ice on the wings as a possible cause of the accident - turning the plane into "a stone without lift", wrote the Brazilian news portal Uol. According to this, there was a warning of ice formation at the site of the crash. Other experts did not rule out the possibility that there was more than one cause of the crash. Voice recorders record the conversations in the cockpit, data recorders record the flight data.