Aviation experts believe that Colombian plane ran out of fuel and the pilot was not deliberately burning it off.
Aviation investigators believe that Colombian plane carrying a Brazilian football team may have run out of fuel before crash landing in a city in Colombia during dismal weather conditions.
There were 71 people who died while there were six who have survived when the plane crashed while it is on its way to Jose Maria Cordova airport.
According to the investigators, it is ‘very suspicious’ that the plane did not explode on impact as it fell into a mountain on its way from Bolivia to the Colombian city of Medellin, carrying the members of Brazilian football team.
It is believed by many that a surviving flight attendant have told authorities that the plane ran out of fuel minutes before its scheduled landing at the airport.
The theory on running out of fuel comes after reports that the pilot of the jet, Miguel Alejandro Quiroga Murakami, had deliberately circled before landing in a bid to burn off or dump fuel and avoid a blast on impact.
The investigation into the crash got underway today.
Following this, a Colombian military source revealed: ‘It is very suspicious that despite the impact there was no explosion. That reinforces the theory of the lack of fuel.’
Based on the flight data, the jet circled around a number of times before the disaster after declaring an electrical failure.
But according to reports, the 1,900 mile flight path used by the doomed aircraft from Santa Cruz in Bolivia, where it had a stopover, to Medellin was at edge of the jet’s capacity.
Ordinarily, the plane would have needed to stop in the capital of Colombia, Bogota if it had run low on fuel. However, the landing did not take place meaning the jet would have been very low on fuel as it approached the city of Medellin.
The plane’s black box recorders have been found, but there was no word on how long it would take to analyse them.