On August 9, a Brazilian flight carrying 62 people crashed in the city of Vinhedo in the state of São Paulo. There were no survivors from the plane, which crashed into a residential area. Thankfully, no one on the ground was injured despite the fiery and fatal plummet.
Since the crash, stories have been coming out about what happened and the details are certainly concerning. Now, the family of one of the people who died in the crash is speaking up about what it was like for those on the plane by sharing text messages from their daughter while she was on the flight.
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The young woman's texts were concerning.
Rosana Santos Xavier, 23, started texting her family's WhatsApp chat group not long after she got on the plane. Her messages were fearful from the beginning, and only became more ominous as her time on the plane went on.
"Man, two hours of flight," Santos Xavier wrote in one message shared by local outlet TV Globo.
It was clear that she was very nervous about the trip.
"We’re going to arrive in the rain. I am so scared of this flight. I swear. The plane is old," she said.
Almost immediately after that message, she followed it up by saying, "There is a broken seat. I swear. Chaos." She also shared a stone-faced selfie to the chat to show her fear of the experience.
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Her mother admitted that she also felt uneasy about the flight.
Santos Xavier's mother, Rosemeire, told the news outlet that she also had a bad feeling about the flight, and that she tried to calm her daughter by asking her to recite Bible verses.
Not long after their exchange, the family saw on the news that the plane had crashed. "I was in despair," the mother explained. "I started running around the house screaming."
Investigators are still trying to figure out what happened to make the plane crash.
Investigators are still working to determine what caused the twin engine plane, being operated by Voepass, to crash. The flight was traveling from the city of São Paulo to Cascavel when it crashed in Vinhedo around 1:30 p.m. local time.
The plane had been flying normally until around 1:20 p.m., when radar contact was lost and it stopped responding to calls, Brazilian officials said.
There's no way to know yet if the tragedy could have been avoided.
Video footage shows the plan spiraling through the air before crashing 17,000 feet down into the residential area into a group of trees. The bodies of all 62 people, 58 passengers and four crew members, were recovered from the crash site over the weekend.
"Very sad news. All my solidarity to the families and friends of the victims," Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva tweeted. He also declared three days of mourning following the crash.
