'Do not report': ex-pilot's audio shows routine for not reporting problems with Voepass; LISTEN

'Do not report': ex-pilot's audio shows routine for not reporting problems with Voepass; LISTEN Unreleased audio obtained by EPTV, a TV Globo affiliate, shows a Voepass maintenance employee instructing a pilot not to record a problem identified during a flight to prevent the aircraft from being taken out of operation - listen above. The recording reinforces Cenipa's conclusion that Voepass had a "culture of normalizing deviations" in the company's operational conduct. The statement was given by Lieutenant Colonel Paulo Mendes Fróes, Cenipa investigator, during the presentation of the final report on the crash of the company's plane in Vinhedo (SP), in an accident that killed 62 people in August 2024. "I needed you to get in touch with [name omitted], he is the one who will take over your plane there, so as not to report it to PACK, because he will take over the aircraft there and talk to you. Just so as not to report it, so as not to be AOG there", says the employee in the audio obtained by EPTV. ? The acronym AOG, from the English Aircraft on Ground, is used when an aircraft needs to remain on the ground due to a breakdown or the need for maintenance. The PACK is a component of the aircraft's air conditioning and pressurization system. In a note, Voepass reported that it did not have access to and was not aware of the audio. The company reinforced that it had a formal communication system for identifying equipment failures, which its teams were instructed to strictly follow. READ ALSO: Plane gave 5 warnings before crashing: see the final moments of the Voepass flight Final report points out that the company, pilots and Anac failed, and says that the plane could not have taken off See 19 points that contributed or may have contributed to the plane crash, according to Cenipa The pilot who received the message asked not to be identified. In an interview with EPTV, he stated that the request occurred a few months after the Vinhedo tragedy and that similar situations were recurrent in the company. "It was common for them to ask, especially when it was an item that had already left maintenance. They had a big problem with stopping the aviation, they didn't want it to stop at all", he stated. According to him, when deadlines for correcting errors were not met, there was pressure for the problems not to be formally registered. The former employee highlighted that he never failed to register problems that he considered necessary. He also reported that professionals who insisted on recording breakdowns could be met with resistance within the company. 'Culture of normalizing deviations' 'Not reporting': audio of former pilot shows routine for not reporting breakdowns on Voepass Reproduction/EPTV During the release of the final report on the Vinhedo accident, this Thursday (23), Cenipa pointed out that the company had a process of normalizing operational deviations, with incomplete records of failures and difficulties in the flow of information related to aircraft maintenance. Similar report EXCLUSIVE: deicing failure was omitted before Voepass disaster, says former employee Almost a year before the release of the final report, a former Voepass employee had already reported to the documentary "81 Seconds", produced by g1 in partnership with EPTV, that a failure presented by the accident aircraft would have stopped being recorded in the logbook hours before takeoff. The worker stated at the time that he followed, in the company's hangar, the last maintenance carried out on the ATR before the flight that crashed in Vinhedo. Remember the accident The accident happened on August 9, 2024. The ATR 72-500, registration PS-VPB, was flying between Cascavel (PR) and Guarulhos International Airport (SP) when it crashed in the backyard of a house in a condominium in Vinhedo (SP). The 62 people on board, including 58 passengers and four crew, died. No resident of the affected residence was injured. It was the most serious accident in Brazilian aviation since the TAM flight disaster in 2007. Infographic - What the plane that crashed in Vinhedo looked like Arte g1 What Voepass says The crash of flight 2283, on August 9, 2024, was the most difficult episode in the history of VOEPASS. Since the moment of the accident, the company has been in solidarity with the families of the victims, sharing a pain that remains present in their memory. In more than 30 years of operations in Brazilian aviation, the company had never faced a situation like this. Over three decades, it has always adopted serious safety, training and crew guidance procedures. The company's operations have always been based on international security standards, including IOSA certification since 2012, a requirement for operational excellence issued only to IATA audited companies. The crew of flight 2283 was experienced, qualified and duly certified, accumulating more than 5,000 flight hours and with rigorously updated technical training and health monitoring, without any prior registration or factor that would impede their performance. Since the beginning of the investigations, VOEPASS has acted transparently with Cenipa and public authorities and remains available to all institutions and agents involved to collaborate with whatever is necessary. VIDEOS: everything about Campinas and the region See more news about the region on g1 Campinas