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This pane crash takes us to the South American country of Brazil, which is located next to the following countries: French Guinea, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the crash site and firefighters attending to the post crash fire.
TAM Airlines Flight 3054, registered as Papa Romeo- Mike Bravo Kilo (PR-MBK), was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight of TAM Airlines from Salgado International Airport (IATA: POA, ICAO: SBPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil to São Paulo Congonhas Airport, São Paulo, Brazil.
On the evening of the 17th of July 2007, the Airbus A320-233 serving this flight overran Runway 35L at São Paulo Congonhas airport during moderate rain and the plane crashed into a nearby TAM Express warehouse which was adjacent to a Shell petrol station, the plane exploded on impact, which killed all 187 people on board the plane and a further 12 people on the ground were also killed (199 in total), the crash surpassed the crash of Gol Flight 1907 as the deadliest aviation accident in Brazilian territory and is the deadliest in South American history and it remains the deadliest aviation accident involving the A320 proper worldwide and it's the second deadliest air disaster involving the A320 family, it was surpassed by the bombing of Metrojet Flight 9268.
Flight 3054 was cleared to land at Congonhas's Runway 35L, the aircraft touched down without incident, the plane didn't slow down normally, the plane was nearing the end of the runway when it veered to the left as it departed the far end of the runway at around a speed of 90 knots (170 kilometres per hour), the runway at the airport is elevated above the surrounding area and aircraft momentum is carried out over traffic on the adjacent Avenida Washington Luís, a major thoroughfare, the plane crashed into a four story TAM Express Facility, which resulted in a large fire and the building contained offices and a warehouse and this was located adjacent to a Shell Petrol station, all 187 people on board the plane were killed and the aircraft was destroyed in the crash, at the time of the crash the Runway had recently been resurfaced and the runway didn't have water channeling grooves cut into it to reduce the danger of hydroplaning.
The summary of the crash was runway excursion caused by pilot error.
Below is a video explaining what happened and it even has security camera footage from the airport of the plane running off the runway, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, which is run by Chloe Howie.
