One of the 62 passengers who was killed when a plane crashed in Brazil warned her family she was ‘so scared’ as the doomed flight departed.
SHE SAW ‘IT’ COMING
Rosana Xavier, 23, sent a series of messages to the WhatsApp group chat Friday morning as Voepass Flight 2283 was ascending.
‘Man, two hours of flight,’ she wrote at 11:47 a.m. in a message shared by her mother, Rosemeire Xavier, with TV Globo.
‘We’re going to arrive in the rain. I am so scared of this flight,’ Rosana Xavier added. ‘I swear. The plane is old.’
A minute later, she texted her loved ones: ‘There is a broken seat. I swear. Chaos.’
A concerned Xavier then snapped a stone-faced selfie and shared it with family members.
THE CRASH HAPPENED
The Voepass ATR-72 turboprop plane took off from Cascavel Regional Airport at 11:46 a.m. in Cascavel, Paraná and was bound for São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo.
It plunged from the skies crashed into the backyard of a condominium building in the town of Vinhedo in the state of São Paulo.
WHY IT CRASHED
The Brazilian Air Force said in a statement that the aircraft was flying normal at 1:20 p.m., but after 1:21 p.m. the plane did not respond air traffic control.
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Rosemeire Xavier revealed that she asked her daughter to read a Bible verse to calm her fears, though she, too, became worried.
She found out about the crash through a news report on television.
‘I was in despair,’ she said. ‘I started running around the house screaming.’
First responders recovered the bodies of all 34 male passengers and 28 female passengers on Saturday.
As of Monday, only 17 victims had been identified, including the pilot, Danilo Romano, and his co-pilot, Humberto de Silva.
