Brazilian President Lula da Silva was shocked this Sunday when the plane he was on was forced to abort takeoff from Congonhas airport, in the southern zone of the city of Sao Paulo, and turn around because the Airbus A319 was already in the middle of a race to gain speed and take off from the track.
The incident, which caused nothing less than great fear, occurred at 16:44 local time and 19:44 in Lisbon, with the reasons not described in detail by the airport, the President of the Republic or the Brazilian airline. Force, FAB, which controls the device. It only turned out that the plane had an unexpected problem, it aborted takeoff, turned around, returned to the military zone of this airport and resumed its flight without problems after about 20 minutes.
Lula returned to Brasilia after fulfilling political obligations and investing a million dollars in infrastructure in two cities near Sao Paulo. In Santos, on the south coast, next to former minister Jair Bolsonaro and current state governor Tarcisio de Freitas, Lula announced an investment of 1.130 million euros in the construction (as yet without an exact date) of an 860-meter-long tunnel. Atlantic Ocean connecting Santos with Guaruja, which, if completed, would be the first undersea tunnel in South America, as well as in São Bernardo do Campo, where he lived most of his life, the President visited the Volkswagen plant, which announced the investment of three billion euros to Brazil in the coming years.
The day before the incident with the presidential plane, two other planes encountered problems, also without casualties, at Congonhas airport, located in the densely populated areas of the southern zone of the city of Sao Paulo. First, a plane maneuvering for takeoff collided with a bird and was forced to abort the takeoff, and shortly thereafter another plane was forced to go around, that is, abort its attempt to land, and continued to fly over the runway for some time. minutes until she was allowed to come down, this time without any problems.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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