A passenger’s message before the air tragedy in Brazil: “I’m afraid of this flight”

Rosana Santos Xavier took a selfie inside the plane that crashed in Vinhedo (Photo: Screenshot/TV Globo)

A passenger on the flight Voepass sent messages to his family before the tragic accident on Friday, expressing his fear for the poor condition of the aircraft what crashed in Vinhedo, São Paulo state, causing the death of all 62 occupants.

Shortly after boarding the plane, Rosana Santos Xaviera 23-year-old woman, wrote a message of concern in the family chat. “I’m scared of this flight, I swear, old plane. There’s a broken seat, chaos”was his message, which he accompanied with a selfie from the plane.

His mother, Xaviertried to calm her down by asking her to read a psalm from the Bible, as she said during an interview with the National Newspaper.

Rosemeire He told the Brazilian media that he had a bad feeling and found out about the accident on television, which caused him great despair.I got desperate. I started running around the house screaming.”said.

Rosana lived in Franco da Rochain the metropolitan region of São Paulo and had traveled to Paraná for business, her mother said. The young woman helped out at home by helping with the shopping and saving up for her own car, and was a very committed person to her family.

“He only thought about us, his money was to help at home”said the mother.

Brazilian forensic officers working on the remains of the fuselage of the Voepass airline plane that crashed in the city of Vinhedo (Brazil). (EFE/ Isaac Fontana)
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I traveled every two months to Toledo, Paranawhere the headquarters of the company he worked for is located, to attend face-to-face meetings.

The plane of Voepassaccording to various sources, showed signs of deterioration, as Rosana mentioned to her family before boarding.

However, those responsible for the investigation reported that was in regular flight condition and did not report any emergency.

The crashed plane, a twin-engine model ATR-72-500 and French manufacture, was covering the route between the city of Cascavel and São Paulo with 58 passengers and 4 crew members on board and crashed when it was about 80 kilometers from reaching its destination.

Despite landing in a residential area, the aircraft crashed in the backyards of a housing complex without affecting any buildings or leaving any victims on the ground.

A passenger plane crashed in Sao Paulo, Brazil

This is the most serious air accident to occur on Brazilian soil since 2007when a TAM airline flight crashed into a warehouse after leaving the runway at São Paulo’s Congonhas airport, leaving 199 dead.

An aircraft crashed in a residential area

Information about the accident remains developing, and investigations into the cause of the accident are ongoing. Those responsible for the investigation hope that the black boxes of the devicealready rescued, offer the first clues on the causes of a tragedy of which They do not yet have concrete hypotheses.

“At this moment, investigators are working on extracting data from the flight recorders (black boxes) to find explanations for what happened,” said the director of the Center for Investigation and Prevention of Air Accidents (Cenipa) of the Brazilian Air Force, Brigadier General Marcelo Moreno, on Saturday.

In the improvised press conference he offered in Vineyarda city in the interior of São Paulo, the officer stated that the Black boxes were recovered on Friday night and taken to Brasiliaand which are already in the Cenipa laboratory.

“First we will extract the information from the cockpit voice recorder and then from the flight data recorder. We do not yet know how long this work will take,” he said.

Relatives of the 62 victims of the Voepass flight 2283 accident arrive this Saturday at the auditorium of the Oscar Freire Institute, the place chosen for the reception and beginning of the procedures for identifying the bodies in Sao Paulo (Brazil). (EFE/ Isaac Fontana)
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The general said that it is premature to comment on the different hypotheses that specialists have pointed out about the causes of the accident, the main one of which is about the Possible ice build-up on aircraft wingswhich would explain its downward spiral.

“At this point we cannot say whether that was decisive or not.“said the soldier, who clarified that the aircraft is certified to travel in these conditions and has devices to prevent the formation of ice.

The president of the airline also spoke out Voepass -owner of the crashed aircraft-, Eduardo Buschfor whom “everything that is circulating is speculation.”

In his brief statement, Moreno “reaffirmed” that “so far we have no information that there was a declaration of any type of emergency in flight traffic controls.”

A passenger plane crashed in Sao Paulo, Brazil

According to the military, The pilot did not contact any control tower to report problems.

At the same press conference, the president director of the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), Thiago Pereira, reiterated that Both the aircraft and the crew were in regular operating condition and all required certificates were up to date.

On Saturday the firefighters They completed the rescue of the bodies of the 62 victimsof which the first two have already been identified, official sources reported.

Fire Department spokeswoman Lieutenant Olivia Perroni reported that they were removed from the rubble 34 male and 28 female bodiesincluding two minors, which correspond to the 62 occupants of the aircraft (58 passengers and 4 crew members) according to the list released by Voepass.

The lieutenant also said that 50 bodies have already been transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in São Paulowhere 30 have already undergone the respective autopsy and identification tasks are underway.

According to firefighters, two of the victims, the pilot and co-pilot, have so far been identified through fingerprint tests.