The black box recording from the doomed Brazilian plane that crashed and killed everyone on board reveals the final words from the pilots.
More heartbreaking information related to the VoePass Flight 2283 that carried 61 people has been released.
The twin-engine turboprop plane was en route to Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport with 57 passengers and four crew members on board when it crashed into a gated community in the city of Vinhedo on Friday (August 9)
There were no survivors.
The aircraft took off from Cascavel Regional Airport at approximately 11:46 AM in Cascavel, Paraná, and was set to land at São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo.
Unfortunately, just under two hours into the journey, the plane did not respond to air traffic control which promoted further investigation into the matter and it was soon discovered that the plane had crashed sometime after 1:21 PM.
"The company regrets to inform that all 61 people on board flight 2283 died at the site," Voepass said in a statement. "At this time, Voepass is prioritising provision of unrestricted assistance to the victims' families and effectively collaborating with authorities to determine the causes of the accident," they added.
According to local TV station Globo, investigators have now obtained the full transcript of the cockpit audio from the aircraft.
The two-hour recording suggests that both the pilot, Danilo Santos Roman, and copilot, Humberto de Campos Alencar e Silva, noticed a steep loss in altitude just one minute before the tragedy.
Silva asked Romano: "What is going on?" to which the pilot allegedly said that the plane needed "more power" to stabilize the aircraft, as cited by Daily Mail.
In addition to this, officials also discovered a passenger named Rosana Xavier's heartbreaking final messages to her family before the plane plummeted.
"Man, two hours of flight," she penned in translated text shared by her mother, Rosemeire Xavier, with TV Globo as reported by Daily Mail. "We're going to arrive in the rain. I am so scared of this flight," she said, adding: "I swear. The plane is old."
She then told her loved ones that there was a "broken seat" on the flight, adding: "Chaos," before snapping one last selfie, which showed her looking stone-faced selfie.
Rosemeire, who was very distressed after receiving the alarming texts from her daughter, asked Rosana to read a Bible verse to calm her fears. She then found out about her daughter's fate through a news report on television.
Check out the messages below:First responders managed to recover the bodies of all 34 male passengers and 28 female passengers over the weekend, but so far, only 17 victims had been identified, including the pilot and his co-pilot.
Following the crash, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in a video shared by CNN: "I would like everyone to stand up so that we can observe a minute of silence because a plane has just crashed in the city of Vinhedo, in São Paulo, with 58 passengers and four crew members and it appears they all died."
The reason behind the wreck is still unknown. Some experts have pointed to the possibility of severe icing on the wings, which caused pilots to lose control of the aircraft, however, the Brazilian Air Force disclosed that neither pilot reported any emergency or adverse weather conditions.
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this tragedy.
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