One of the 62 passengers who were killed in a plane crash in Brazil sent a heartbreaking message to her family before she died.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of a tragic incident that killed everyone travelling on board Voepass’ ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop.
The plane left Cascavel Regional Airport at 11.56am in Cascavel, Paraná, and was heading to for Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo on Friday (9 August).
62 people were killed in the Brazil plane crash.(Nelson ALMEIDA/AFP/NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images)
Sadly the aircraft didn’t make it to the airport after it crashed in the town of Vinhedo in São Paulo.
Voepass said in a statement: “The aircraft took off from Cascavel-PR bound for Guarulhos Airport, with 58 passengers and four crew members on board. VOEPASS has taken all measures to support those involved.
“There is still no confirmation of how the accident occurred or the current situation of the people on board.
“The Company is providing support via telephone at 0800 9419712, available 24 hours a day, providing information to all its passengers, family members and employees.”
It was later confirmed that all 62 people on board the plane had died.
Authorities are still determining what happened. (MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL/AFP/MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Rosana Santos Xavier, 23, was one of the passengers who lost her life in the crash.
The woman from Franco da Rocha, in Greater São Paulo, was the main source of income of the family and was travelling for work, her mum told TV Globo.
As soon as she boarded, she messaged the family group chat, writing: “I’m afraid of this flight, I swear, old plane. There’s a broken armchair, chaos.”
After complaining about the two-hour flight, she sent a selfie to her mum Rosemeire Xavier.
Rosana Santos Xavier sent a selfie her mother before the crash (TV Globo)
The mother said she had a bad feeling after receiving the texts and ‘screamed’ when she saw the news of the plane crash on the TV.
“I got desperate. I started running inside the house screaming,” she said.
Her daughter usually worked from home, but every two months she travelled for a meeting with the company she worked for in Toledo.
As authorities are still working to work out the cause of the crash, Brazilian aviation expert Lito Sousa speculates that weather conditions alone might not explain what happened.
Rosana Santos Xavier was among the 62 people who died (TV Globo)
He said: “Analysing an air crash just with images can lead to wrong conclusions about the causes.
“But we can see a plane with loss of support, no horizontal speed. In this flat spin condition, there’s no way to reclaim control of the plane.”
Meanwhile, eyewitness and local resident Ana Lucia told reporters that she ‘thought it was going to fall in our yard’.
“It was scary, but thank God there were no victims among the locals. It seems that the 62 people inside the plane were the real victims, though,” she added.
LADbible Group has contacted Voepass for additional comment.
