Jorge Brito, dueño del Banco Macro y presidente de River Plate, falleció en un accidente de helicóptero en Tucumán o Salta. El avión Challenger 300, que pertenecía a la familia Brito, tocó pista a gran velocidad y fuera de tiempo sin ninguna declaración previa de emergencia. El vuelo provenía de Punta del Este, Uruguay. La investigación sobre las causas exactas del accidente está en curso.
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00:00It's a plane of the Brito family, you know, Jorge Brito is the owner of Banco Macro,
00:06president of the River Plate institution.
00:09The father died in a helicopter accident.
00:11In Tucumán or in Salta, there.
00:14Yes, in that.
00:15Let's go directly, Javier Hermoso, we are live there, in the disaster area.
00:23So, how are you guys doing? Good afternoon.
00:27We are on the street where...
00:33Guys, can you hear me?
00:34Yes, we hear you perfectly.
00:35Hi, good afternoon, how are you?
00:36Hi, Javi, how are you?
00:37How are you?
00:38Good, good.
00:39Well, there you can see part of what is left of the fuselage of the plane,
00:43the back of this Challenger 300, which, as you said, belongs to the Brito family.
00:50The incident occurred around 1.20 pm, a flight that came from the city of Punta del Este, Uruguay, the neighboring country.
01:01Previously, it had also traveled to Punta del Este and now it was returning.
01:08Only two occupants, pilot and co-pilot.
01:11A lot of experience in handling, many hours of flight, as is usually said,
01:15and as you just commented, what should be highlighted here is the proximity of the homes
01:22with a runway that is approximately 1,800 meters long,
01:27and where there are practically constant flights.
01:32Some neighbors, recently or earlier, told me that during the night there are also flights,
01:40during much of the day there are flights, in their vast majority private, they are charter flights,
01:46as this one has probably been.
01:50Some people are seen, obviously people from the PSA, people from the police of the province of Buenos Aires,
01:57firefighters at this time, luckily the fire has already been completely extinguished.
02:04The nose of the plane can be seen on another of the streets here in the area,
02:12which is punctually where it enters.
02:16Once the plane leaves the runway, for not being able to stop on time,
02:23it impacts against a house, which is the testimony that surely the boys must have had earlier,
02:33which is from the owner, that four people who were there at that time have been saved,
02:38who luckily were in the courtyard of the house and who were not inside.
02:45If they had been inside the house, I think we should be accounting for more victims.
02:50One of the owners of the two homes, because there are several who are there affected,
02:55was bathing when he heard the sounds of the disaster, some of the walls cracked.
03:02What everyone agrees on, at least until now, is that the plane would have hit the runway at high speed and out of time.
03:10What happens is that we do not know if there is any problem that occurred in the last section of a 32-minute flight
03:19that brought the pilot and the co-pilot, after apparently leaving Brito's mother in Punta del Este.
03:27You know, Pablo, that a plane landing has a beginning and an end, as they call it.
03:35The end is when you touch the ground.
03:37They tell me, they talk to me here, boys, friends, that maybe, and only maybe,
03:43after having changed the wind in the final, and it is what has led to this situation,
03:50that could have led them to have touched the ground late, Pablo.
03:56So when you touch the ground late, you don't stop it.
04:01They tell me that this is one of the probabilities that could have happened because they had not declared an emergency.
04:07This is what I tell you, when the emergency was declared, the plane that I was going that time,
04:10you know, there were the firemen, the ambulance, all waiting, because they are waiting for a disaster.
04:15The cruising speed of this plane is 870 kilometers per hour.
04:18It would have landed at about 200 or 230 kilometers per hour.
04:22Some say it is a little more than it should.
04:26That is why it is being tried to determine.
04:28Of course, these are the first hours of expertise.
04:31They are, I understand, there, in principle, coordinating the area.
04:35Tell me, Javi, what happened to the fatal victims, if they were already extracted from the plane?
04:43Not yet. As far as we know, they have not yet been extracted from the plane.
04:48I was just looking at the data of them.
04:53Martín, Agustín, Martín was born in 1978, Agustín in 1989, pilot and co-pilot precisely.
05:04And obviously the pain.
05:08As far as we know, and it has transcended, we believe that the relatives are here in the area of the airport.
05:14They have been the relatives.
05:16Precisely.
05:18Yes, it was a communication that was known a while ago by the press people of the PSA,
05:25who realized that.
05:28Martín and Agustín, from 1978 to 1989, as we see there, they continue to work.
05:36Obviously this will take a long time.
05:38The corresponding expertise will be done.
05:40The NAC will do it, which is the entity and is the body that is in charge,
05:49together with the Air Force, also to do the tests and so on, in these cases,
05:56to see why what happened happened.
06:00Punctually, what is happening, taking into account that there is no call or prior contact
06:09to have some kind of aircraft malfunction.
06:12In the control tower there is absolutely no indication that something was wrong.
06:20No, no, no.
06:23They did not declare an emergency, Pablo.
06:25At the moment it has not transcended.
06:26Confirmed.
06:27There is no emergency statement.
06:29Mayday is called.
06:30Mayday is to declare an emergency and inform that all this is going to be in the black box.
06:36The Challenger 300 bomber, which is this CL-300 plane,
06:41could take 10 people on board.
06:45In this case, two returned.
06:47It was a plane that was in rent.
06:48It was operated at this time by the company New Lines S.A.
06:52It had several trips, it had been making several scheduled trips.
06:57Last Friday it left San Fernando to Uruguay until 11.30 that morning.
07:02It returned 12.50.
07:05Then, well, several days and back.
07:08Many times businessmen are used.
07:10These are planes that are rented.
07:13Famous, who sometimes travel to Punta del Este.
07:16And in this case we are trying to determine
07:18if it was finally the mother of the owner of the plane
07:21who had been transferred to Punta del Este.
07:23This is the information we had in a preliminary way.
07:26Look at how it was there on the A-24 drone,
07:28how the facades of these homes were,
07:30people who were bathing, others who were in the courtyard.
07:34Some who heard three explosions and could escape.
07:40It's a pretty busy neighborhood,
07:45with a lot of movement here, guys.
07:49It's an area or time, rather,
07:52where the holidays have already begun.
07:56So there are a lot of kids,
07:59a lot of minors on the street, playing on the sidewalk and so on.
08:03And if I ask Nico to make a panel,
08:06look, there are about five meters
08:09between what would be the wire that delimits the airport
08:13with what would be the cord of the sidewalk.
08:16I mean, a lot of people, even playing,
08:18or a lot of kids, maybe playing at that time, noon.
08:21No, and besides, any car that passed through there
08:24was going to be an even worse tragedy.
08:26Let's see, Javi, we continue.
08:28In fact, in fact.
08:29Tell me, tell me.
08:30In fact, it is seen, sorry, in one of the videos,
08:32when the plane comes, it is seen taking a car.
08:37A car, yes.
08:38It takes a car and it takes a tree.
08:40A car and a tree are run over,
08:44so to speak, in some way.
08:46They are carried by the speed that this plane was still bringing,
08:51which, obviously, was already on the ground,
08:53but they can't stop it,
08:55and much less at that speed already in the grass,
08:58in the grass, as you can see there,
09:01once the runway ends or begins,
09:04to what would be the street where we are at the moment.