(Bloomberg) -- Air-safety experts probing the jet crash that killed 71 people including most of Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer squad will look at whether the plane ran out of fuel while operating a flight close to the limits of its range.
The distance between Santa Cruz in Bolivia, where the BAE Systems Plc Avro RJ85 took off, and Medellin, Colombia, where it was headed, is 1,598 nautical miles, based on calculations using the Great Circle Mapper website. The model, which ceased production in 2003, has a usual range of about 1,600nm.
“There’s a lot of speculation about the length of the sector,” Paul Hayes, safety director at London-based aviation consultancy Ascend Worldwide, said in an interview. “It’s very long for an RJ85. You would not normally think of this aircraft as operating that sort of flight on a range basis alone.”
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