He new presidential planea Boeing 757-200arrived in Argentina from Miami, United States, and was involved in a controversy over a landing maneuver. The ship, which will replace the tango 01It arrived in the country at 5:00 p.m., and immediately afterward, videos of the moment of landing began to circulate on social networks.
According to various experts and pilots, the maneuver that the commander changed was unnecessary. And with the audios that were known from the pilot with the control towers, the hypothesis was confirmed.
In the images that circulated, they show the new presidential plane, plotted in light blue and white, lean heavily on your left side.
Yes ok the presidential plane always has priorityin this opportunity I was not transferring Alberto Fernández, who was already resting in Chapadmalal. However, the pilot leonardo barone insist on requesting authorization from the controllers to carry out the manoeuvre, to continue the warning of the controllers, whom he did not obey. This put the rest of the planes that were about to land at Jorge Newbery Airport at risk.
With a controversial maneuver, the new presidential plane ARG-01 has already landed in Buenos Aires
In fact, in one of the audios you can hear how the control tower receives a request from one of the planes to change the altitude due to the turbulence that was registered by the storms and adverse weather conditions.
What do the audios of the pilot of the presidential plane say?
At first, Barone gives notice that he had prior authorization to descend in a sector he calls 13. But a controller tells him not to do it because there were other flights with priority: “No, you are now in Baires (control tower of Ezeiza) and has four transits that precede it and (were) diverted by weather. Maintain flight level 100″.
At another time, the controller asks the pilot of the presidential plane to stay at 3,000 feet and to wait a few minutes for the airspace to be released over the San Fernando Airport to authorize the request. “Hold a 3,000. Give me two minutes to release SANFER’s ATZ and I’ll give him free descent”.
This is the new presidential plane that cost 25 million dollars
Barone replied: “Ah, I understood that it was free descent. We’re going to keep it… 2,300 feet.” That’s when the controller warns you: “I never gave him free descent”. “sorry. We are at 3,000 empanadas. Released 3,000 feet,” Barone replied.
The controversial maneuver that follows criticism from pilots
“The plane can do the maneuver. Now is it necessary? If there is nothing coordinated or someone did not ask you to do it, from my point of view, it is quite illogical. It is a new plane, the pilots have just been certified on the plane. It was just a plane transfer”, affirmed the pilot and aeronautical consultant Carlos Rinzelli.
The maneuver called “low flight” is a custom that is performed to celebrate the retirement of a pilot or the incorporation of an aircraft to the fleet, in this case to the presidential fleet, but it does not pose a risk to the ship or its crew.
The official communiqué of the pilots
Through a message released in the last few hours, the commanders Juan Pablo Pinto and Leonardo Baronein charge of the flight that brought the new presidential plane to Argentina, information: “On the transfer flight of the Aircraft Registration ARG-01 from the US to the Argentine RepublicPrior to landing, a Permit is requested from Aeroparque Torre Control, the overflight of the runway axis as reception of the Aircraft Incorporated into the Air Fleet”.
In that sense, they added: “TThe passage was authorized by the control, this being use and custom every time an Aircraft is incorporated or when a Commander is Retired. These passages are authorized by taking place along the runway axis, without flying over obstacles”, they stated.
How is the new presidential plane
The Boeing 757-256 aircraft was purchased by the Executive Power, for a value close to US$25 million, after paying US$ 21,730,000. Instead, the Argentine State delivered the old Tango 01, valued at almost US$3 million.
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According to the images of the aircraft, it is fully painted in national colors: throughout its entire fuselage, light blue and white are mixed, with some details in gold and the classic sun of the Argentine flag, drawn on the rudder and in the lower part, between the wheels.
The “Argentina 01” plane will be available for the last months of Alberto Fernández’s term. Inside, the aircraft has comfortable seats, a bed, luxurious bathrooms and high-speed Wi-Fi connection and
The new aircraft is a model manufactured in the year 2000. According to government sources, the vehicle it began to function as a commercial aircraft and in 2009 it changed its interior for VIP equipment. According to US registration records, the plane was originally from the company iberian and carried the identification EC-HIP, which was registered on April 24, 2000. Then, on May 28, 2005, it changed hands and the owner, Funair Corporation, went on to list it as N757AG, in the United States. April 13 It already appears how the ownership changed in favor of the Argentine government and is identified as ARG-01.
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