Rosana Santos Xavier, 23 years old, was temporary of the plane that crashed last Friday near Sao Paulo, Brazil. 48 hours after the tragedy, the victims were released Messages that the young woman sent to her family during the flight where he told them that he was afraid of the flight, that the aircraft was old and that I lived in “chaos”.
Rosana had traveled to Paraná for work reasons and boarded at Cascavel airport to return to Franco da Rocha, in Greater São Paulo, where she lived.
At 11:47, having just boarded the plane, with two hours to go before reaching her destination and with heavy rain on the horizon, the young woman wrote to her family via WhatsApp: “Two hours of flight, we are going to arrive.” It’s raining, this flight is so scary…“.
Were nine messages which she wrote in less than a couple of minutes. The series was completed with a somewhat more precise description of what caused the woman’s stated fear.
“This flight is scary,” the message from the plane to the family of one of the victims of the air tragedy in Brazil
“Old plane, has a broken seat. Chaos “, he wrote at 11:48 about the aircraft and, perhaps, the atmosphere on board.
The messages were published by the Brazilian network O Globo, which also added the witness of Rosemeire, mother of the young woman, one among the 61 occupants who died due to the accident suffered by Voepass flight 2283.
Rosana’s mother told Jornal Nacional that she had “a bad feeling” about her daughter’s flight. To calm her down, she had recommended that her daughter read the Bible.
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It had a capacity for 68 passengers and had departed from the city of Cascavel. It landed in Vinhedo, about 80 kilometers from São Paulo, which was its destination.
Minutes later, Rosemeire saw on television that a plane crash had occurred and went into shock. “I was in despair. I started running inside the house screaming“, recalled the victim’s mother when giving her testimony to the local press.
Rosana Santos Xavier worked from home, but every two months she attended meetings at the company she worked for. The plane in which she died, Brazilian authorities later confirmed, was manufactured in 2010.
Why the plane crashed in Sao Paulo
He was reportedly in regular state of operationwith valid registration and airworthiness certificates, as well as the crew with updated documentation.
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Neighbors recorded the scene of the accident, with the flames consuming the pieces of the aircraft.
The VoePass aircraft, model ATR-72, departed from Cascavel, in Paraná, bound for the São Paulo International Airport, in Guarulhos, when, around 3 p.m., fell vertically until it crashed against the ground in the backyard of a house in Viña. The plane exploded and caught fire.
The main suspicion regarding the cause of the accident is a anti-ice system failurewhich would have caused ice to accumulate on the aircraft, causing the pilot to lose control.
