Doomed LaMia flight’s engines began shutting down several minutes before crash

Colombia—Pilots of the doomed LaMia charter plane knew its engines were shutting down several minutes before the crash that killed 71 people, but failed to notify air-traffic control until it was too late, Colombian officials said Monday. Investigators from Colombia’s Civil Aviation Authority said the pilots didn’t report “a total electric failure without fuel” until 2 minutes before the aircraft collided at 145 miles an hour into a hillside just outside Medellin, Colombia Nov 28. While the crew had asked for priority landing, they didn’t indicate imminent danger and investigators said the pilots spoke with controllers “in a completely normal manner. “There was no technical failure, only human and managerial error,” the head of the investigation team for Colombia’s Civil Aviation Authority said in the first official report since the accident. <br/>