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This is the story of lamia flight 2933. On the 28th of november 2016 an avroRJ855 was on the ground at viru viru international airport in bolivia , this was a charter flight and this plane would take the __ players all the way from viru viru to rio negro in columibia. But that wasnt the original plan, the original plan called for two charter flights from Guarulhos to medellin and then from medellin to chapeco in brazil. When lamia applied for permits to fly this route they were denied the permits as usually charter flights are operated by an airline from either the departure or arrival country and since lamia was bolivian the brazilian authorities did not allow the plane to fly. So the team flew from sao paulo to viru viru on a commercial flight and then they boarded flight 2933. As the passengers boarded the plane the captain was busy in the cockpit requesting fuel for the flight. The captain wanted to fill the plane up with 9300 kilos or about 18000 pounds of fuel. The captain had plans of refuelling the plane at cobija airport near the border between Brazil and Bolivia. At 10:08 pm local time the captain powered up the plane and they headed towards the runway. After taking off from runway 34 flight 2933 climbed to an altitude of 30,000 feet its cruising altitude. As the plane was in cruise the crew noticed that something was wrong with the plane, the fuel system to be specific, it looked like they wouldn’t have enough fuel to get the plane all the way to rionegro. In the cockpit the pilots were going through all the calculations and contingencies to try and understand how much fuel they had on board and how far they could get with the fuel that they had on board. They toyed around with the idea of diverting to Bogota to refuel. But the situation on the plane looked stable enough that the captain decided to continue flying to his original destination of rio negro. Enroute the low fuel warning came on for the plane but they kept flying. They were just 80 Nm from rionegro and the pilots started descending from their cruising altitude , as they kept a close watch on the fuel state of the airplane. By the time they were at 25,000 feet the plane was handed over to meddlin approach. As they got closer to the airport another plane that had a suspected fuel leak was given priority over other planes, thus flight 2933 had been put into a holding pattern over the waypoint gemli. Now this wasn’t ideal for the pilots of flight 2933, they were in a low fuel state and now they had to stay in this circuit , considering that the circuit was 24 nautical miles long even one circuit in the holding pattern would significantly eat into their little fuel reserves. The pilots did not like what they were seeing the amount of fuel that they would not be able to keep them in the air for much longer. The pilots were getting a bit cagey they kept asking for permission to descend over and over, to the point where the controller had to be like stand by ive got a plane below you you can get down once they’re out of the way and then finally an eternity after the low fuel warning light had come on the pilots finally let the air traffic controllers know that they had a situation on board. Here’s a quote “We are with fuel emergency...that’s why I am
asking you at once for final course, request immediate descent lamia 2933”, They knew that they had to get down as fast as possible. ATC immediately started cancelling the clearances of the other planes in the area and started clearing a path for flight 2933 to come in, at this point flight 2933 was finishing up the circuit and they now just had to get on the localised and land. As ATC was clearing other planes out of the way the controller turned to the pilots and basically said youre at 210 right now stay there for a bit and then turn to the right and start your descent but that wasn’t good enough for the crew of flight 2933 they said “negative we are already starting descent”. The crew of flight 2933 were not wasting any time in getting there plane down, now it was just a mad dash to the runway before they ran out of fuel. The pilots put out the flaps and the plane started its descent down to the runway. Barely 10 seconds after the flaps came out engine number three started to lose power engine number three was closely followed by engine number 4. All this while ATC is frantically trying to get other planes out of the
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