I argued with him and stuff, and that was it, and he saved my life, man,” he told the outlet as he teared up with emotion. “He did his job because… if he hadn’t done it… maybe I wouldn’t be in this interview today, sorry.”
VoePass Flight 2283 crashed into a residential area in the city of Vinhedo, carrying 57 passengers and four crew, according to The Associated Press.Footage showed the plane drifting downward vertically, spiraling as it fell. The wreckage site showed an area on fire with smoke coming out of an obliterated plane fuselage. Firefighters, military police and the civil defense authority all dispatched teams to the crash site.
Another passenger, Jose Felipe, said he was part of a group of 10 people who made the same mistake.
“I thought I was going to leave on LATAM which was closed,” he told GloboNews.
“Thank God, we didn’t get on that plane. We didn’t know it was going to be with that company [VoePass], we thought it was going to be with LATAM, and LATAM was closed. I even arrived early [at the airport] and waited, waited and nothing.”When he found an agent, he said he pressured the worker to get him on the flight.
“Sir, I have to get on this plane. I have to go,” Felipe said he told the airline worker, who refused to board him citing he was past the boarding time limit.
“And he said there was no way and what I can do for you is reschedule your ticket,” Felipe said.
Would-be VoePass passengers say they missed doomed Brazilian flight over booking mix-upThe Capela neighborhood where the plane crashed sits far from the center of the city that’s home to 77,000 residents.
At an event in southern Brazil on Friday, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asked the crowd to stand and observe a minute of silence as he shared the news. VoePass staff at the Guarulhos airport told the Associated Press that the company was notifying victims’ family members and supporting them at a private room in the airport.
He said that it appeared that all passengers and crew aboard had died, without elaborating as to how that information had been obtained.
Aviation expert and former pilot Arthur Rosenberg said video of the plane appears to show the airliner stalling in midair. A stall is when the plane is not moving through the air fast enough, forward motion, to be able to maintain lift to stay in the air,” he told Fox News Channel’s “The Story.” “The sound tells me there was something wrong with one or both engines.”
This photo shows an aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board in Vinhedo, São Paulo State, Brazil, on Aug. 10, 2024. (Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP)
