“CONGONHAS: Announced tragedy” accompanies the consequences of the 2007 Tam accident, which marked the history of Brazilian aviation
The director Angelo defanting (The Club of Angels, Perishable) He began to think about what his new series of documentaries would be when a flight was lost and he arrived two hours in advance at the Consgonhas airport in San Paolo in 2016. To enjoy the time, in the end he visited the memorial of 17 July, erected in honor of the victims of the Tam flight accident in 2007 and found a complete situation of abandonment.
“The memorial was in a deplorable situation that only worsened today. It seemed like a metaphor for an accident with which I, as Brazilian, had also lived on television when it happened in the early evening,” he remembers in an interview with Estadão. “Since I had this spark, I started doing research and I saw that it was a hole almost in the background.”
It was from this interest that was born CONGONHAS: tragedy announcedseries in three chapters who arrive on Wednesday 23, a Netflix. The documentary, like many who save stories of surprising tragedies, brings relationships from members of the family of victims and the long search for a sort of response or responsibility. But the director explains that there is a differential.
“In this maximum aviation that an accident is never caused by a single factor, but a series of factors that, in prison, collaborate and result for an accident, I also understood that the tail of the Congonhas accident was very long, very long, much more than the other accidents,” he says.
The accident occurred on July 17, 2007, when the Tam 3054 flight started from Porto Alegre International Airport in Congonhas. During the landing, the plane was unable to curb and ended up slipping beyond the boundaries of the track, planning Washington Luís Avenue and colliding with a cargo loading building. It is the plane crash with the greatest number of deaths in the history of Brazilian aviation, with 199 victims.
To revisit it, defanting outlines a path that crosses the pain of the families of the victims and the bureaucratic investigations that include the regulatory bodies and a moment of established chaos. After all, the country was in the middle of the Blackout Air thus called, an intense crisis in the sector set up by the 2006 flight flight in flight of flight, systematic flight delays, airport structure problems and even a strike of flight controllers have denounced an air transport system that had to face problems due to the lack of structure and planning.
“These are two things that intersect. In the first place, approaching the person respectfully, demonstrating a certain seriousness”, explains Angelo, speaking of the series to vent these topics with interviews with figures like figures Marco Antonio Bolognathen president of Tam, Denise Abreuthen president of the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) e Clara AntSpecial consultant of President Lula at that moment.
“Many of these have requested long and long and long negotiation conversations. But it also has another side of the coin, which is the accident itself. A very important thing is to renew the accident to the new generations, so as not to lose it in the imagination and public memory. Perhaps the people who normally portray us due to a personal, social and collective mission, to participate.”
Which “Congonhas: Announced tragedy” new door?
According to Angelo, one of the great challenges of the project was research, as there was an intense media coverage at the time of the accident. “It was an accident that everyone has covered. What you want to think, has. What, on the one hand, is wonderful. On the other, it is a great stolen, you have to see the materials of all the channels,” he confesses.
To organize the speech, the balanced series some main axes, such as the pain of families, the investigations on the causes of the accident and the airport situation, swallowed by the city.
“From these axes, I would also say that there are more. The accident itself, not only the investigations on the accident. The pain of the family members, but also the search for justice. The side of the pilots, as well as the human side and the drivers’ coach.”
Therefore, Defanti believes that the great contribution of the series is to open debates on how the accident influences the current knowledge of the aviation and the safety procedures and also to start a conversation on the events triggered by the existence of an airport such as CONGONHAS in the middle of the city.
“Some things could not enter the series, such as the soot around Congonhas. A soot, a much more dense dust. Children with cognitive problems, because it is that noise every 90 seconds. Unconsciously, there are also reverberations of people with heart problems. Do not deepen so much the specific themes of Congonhas, for people, of the series, come out and perhaps attract attention.”
Criticisms in the Federal Government and Lula are “snake eggs”
Another point that the documentary underlines was the criticism of the response given by government agencies and, above all, by President Lula, who took three days to make an official statement for the accident. Ant thinks that there has been an attempt to hold the presidency, a narrative that has changed gradually after it has released a video showing that Airbus landed at an unusual speed, much faster than the aircraft that landed a few minutes earlier.
“Today, we look at the perspective, many years later, there were a little egg of the snake that rolled there who tried to use the CONGONHAS accident and it seems to me that it could not. It was a bad attempt at that moment”, suggests the director. “Something that would have arisen later, but I think it was a great debacle to use the pain of those families and the proportion of this national national event that was dying a little.”
Therefore, he believes that telling this story today is to remember that the past, as sad, teaches.
“Every plane that takes off and lands today in Brazil is also the result of learning. An accident, as unfortunate, must also be learned, must teach things. And the CONGONHA accident has taught. If this happens in Brazil, I hope we are a little more vaccinated with these things.”
Watch the trailer of “CONGONHAS: announced tragedy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gloprenzidg
Source: Terra
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