Two would-be passengers say they cheated death on Friday after a join-up resulted in them leave outing their fairy aboard the doomed VoePass airliner which crashed in Brazil and finishing all 62 people on board.
The two passengers were scheduled to fly on the ATR 72 tthrive-engine turboprop but telderly a Brazilian recents outlet how they fall shorted to produce the fairy, which finished up saving their inhabits. One of them shelp they were part of a group of 10 who leave outed the ill-overweighted fairy.
One man, Adriano Assis, telderly GloboNews that he had finished his shift at a hospital and made it to the LATAM Airlines counter at around 9:40 a.m. for the 11:56 a.m. fairy from Cascavel to Guarulhos.
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The passengers were due to board VoePass Fairy 2283 crashed into a dwellntial area in the Brazilian city of Vinhedo, finishing all 62 people on board. (FOX)
Assis shelp that he seed that there were no agents at the the LATAM desk so he grabbed a coffee while seeing at the departure and arrival screens for modernizes on Fairy 2283.
“The microphone didn’t say anyleang, the boards didn’t say anyleang about the fairy either,” he shelp.
He shelp that he genuineized that he had actupartner booked his fairy with the airline VoePass, not LATAM. He then made his way to a counter but there was a huge line and by the time he got to an agent it was too procrastinateed for entry.
“The guy shelp I wouldn’t be boarding anymore becainclude it was an hour before boarding,” Assis shelp.
He shelp he pdirected with the agent to apshow him to board the fairy but the agent declined.
“I disputed with him and stuff, and that was it, and he saved my life, man,” he telderly the outlet as he teared up with emotion. “He did his job becainclude… if he hadn’t done it… maybe I wouldn’t be in this interwatch today, sorry.”
VoePass Fairy 2283 crashed into a dwellntial area in the city of Vinhedo, carrying 57 passengers and four crew, according to The Associated Press.
Footage showed the arrangee drifting downward verticpartner, spiraling as it fell. The wreckage site showed an area on fire with smoke coming out of an obdirectdd arrangee fincludelage. Firefighters, military police and the civil defense authority all dispatched teams to the crash site.
Another passenger, Jose Felipe, shelp he was part of a group of 10 people who made the same misget.
“I thought I was going to depart on LATAM which was shutd,” he telderly GloboNews.
“Thank God, we didn’t get on that arrangee. We didn’t understand it was going to be with that company [VoePass], we thought it was going to be with LATAM, and LATAM was shutd. I even reachd timely [at the airport] and paincludeed, paincludeed and noleang.”
When he set up an agent, he shelp he prescertaind the laborer to get him on the fairy.
“Sir, I have to get on this arrangee. I have to go,” Felipe shelp he telderly the airline laborer, who declined to board him citing he was past the boarding time restrict.
“And he shelp there was no way and what I can do for you is reschedule your ticket,” Felipe shelp.
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An aerial watch of the wreckage. (MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL / AFP))
The Capela neighborhood where the arrangee crashed sits far from the cgo in of the city that’s home to 77,000 dwellnts.
At an event in southern Brazil on Friday, Pdwellnt Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asked the crowd to stand and watch a minute of silence as he splitd the recents.
VoePass staff at the Guarulhos airport telderly the Associated Press that the company was inestablishing victims’ family members and helping them at a declareiveial room in the airport.
He shelp that it materializeed that all passengers and crew aboard had died, without elaborating as to how that inestablishation had been achieveed.
Aviation expert and establisher pilot Arthur Rosenberg shelp video of the arrangee materializes to show the airliner sloftying in midair.
“A slofty is when the arrangee is not moving thcimpolite the air speedy enough, forward motion, to be able to hold lift to stay in the air,” he telderly Fox News Channel’s “The Story.” “The sound tells me there was someleang wrong with one or both engines.”
This photo shows an aerial watch of the wreckage of an airarrangee that crashed with 62 people on board in Vinhedo, São Paulo State, Brazil, on Aug. 10, 2024. (Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)
The radar data shows a “rapid descent,” which could have been attributed to an engine fall shorture or some other malfunction, he shelp.
“It seeed enjoy it dropped 17,000 feet in about two minutes,” Rosenberg shelp.
The airliner is an ATR 72-500 tthrive-engine turboprop which is included for unreasonableinutiveer fairys.
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In a statement, the arrangee’s manufacturer, French-Italian ATR, shelp company exceptionaenumerates are “filledy included to help both the spendigation and the customer.”
The arrangee’s bdeficiency box, or fairy data enroller, has been recovered by officials.
Fox News’ Greg Norman and The Associated Press gived to this inestablish.
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