{"id":16102,"date":"2016-11-30T07:14:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=16102"},"modified":"2016-11-30T07:14:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:14:03","slug":"colombia-plane-crash-know-avro-rj85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/colombia-plane-crash-know-avro-rj85.html","title":{"rendered":"Colombia Plane Crash: What We Know About the Avro RJ85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The doomed LaMia jet that was carrying a Brazilian pro soccer team when it crashed in Colombia was a British Aerospace Avro RJ85 plane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/widget\/video-embed\/819748419926\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The RJ85&#8217;s range is around 1842 miles when equipped with standard fuel tanks, according to Airliners.net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But according to data from Flightradar, the plane that crashed had flown around 1848 miles from the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It was not immediately clear if the plane had been reconfigured with bigger tanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But among the things Colombian investigators are looking into are reports that a female flight attendant had reported that the plane had run out of fuel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The last tracking signal from Flight 2933 had been received when it was at 15,500 feet. Its destination \u2014 Medellin Airport \u2014 sits at an elevation of 7,000 feet.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Flight <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LMI2933?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LMI2933<\/a> took of from Santa Cruz (VVI) at 22:18 UTC time and lost signal from Flightradar24 near Medellin (MDE) at 02:55 UTC time <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mLL7cGTf93\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mLL7cGTf93<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2014 Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flightradar24\/status\/803490617783418881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 29, 2016<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The plane was produced by a company that is now part of UK&#8217;s BAE Systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Its registration is CP-2933 and records show it first flew in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Airliners.net, the Avro RJ85 is among three models by the manufacturer \u2014 along with the RJ70 and RJ100 \u2014 which vary in length of <\/span>fuselage<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">. Production of the RJ series ceased in 2002 with a total of 170 planes built.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The RJ85 can hold up to 112 people at six abreast, but the more typical seating configuration was for 85 passengers at five across.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Its maximum operating speed is Mach 0.73, with a cruising speed of 474 mph.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It has a <\/span>wing span<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> of 86 feet, a height of 28 feet and 3 inches and a length of 93 feet and 10 inches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/colombia-plane-crash-what-we-know-about-avro-rj85-n689426<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/colombia-plane-crash-know-avro-rj85.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doomed LaMia jet that was carrying a Brazilian pro soccer team when it crashed in Colombia was a British Aerospace Avro RJ85 plane. The RJ85&#8217;s range is around 1842 miles when equipped with standard fuel tanks, according to Airliners.net. But according to data from Flightradar, the plane that crashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[10119,10118],"class_list":["post-16102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-colombia-plane-crash","tag-colombia-plane-crash-what-we-know-about-the-avro-rj85"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}