WORLD.- The Brazilian television network Globonews document the story of some people that due to various circumstances They did not board the flight which was travelling from the city of Cascavel to Sao Paulo with 61 people on board.
One of them said in an interview that he had arrived at the air terminal at 9:40 a.m. and the door was closed, Then he went out into the street and went to get food for breakfast.
“When I got here, I was waiting to see if the airport was open as normal, there is always someone at the counter, there was no one, I stayed upstairs, drank coffee and waited.”
After several minutes, he said he heard no announcement of his boarding pass, nor did the screens warn of takeoff.
“The boy at the counter He said he was not going to boardbecause already the hour had passed. At that moment I argued with him and stuff, but he saved my life, man!
🇧🇷 | PLANE CRASH IN BRAZIL: Testimony of a passenger who was unable to board the plane that crashed this afternoon pic.twitter.com/lozEfQseAl
— International News (@ActualidadINTL) August 9, 2024
On the other hand, another young man who was not able to board the plane explained the reasons why he did not board the aircraft: “I did not know that we would take this company from here, we needed to leave through LATAM, until I arrived early and waited. I I stayed, I stayed and nothing“.
“When it was 11:00 a.m. I came to look here, when I looked, he said to me ‘Boy, you’re not getting on anymoreto that plane because has already passed the boarding limit‘I said, I’m going to put a little pressure on him, but then he said no, that there is no way“.
A third man also went missing within the premises of the place and so it ended arriving late to the boarding gate from the terminal.
Plane crashes in Brazil
This Friday a plane with 61 people on board crashed in a residential area in the Brazilian municipality of Vinhedo, in the state of São Paulo.
🇧🇷According to CNN Brasil, 62 people have been reported dead after a plane crashed near São Paulo. The plane was an ATR-72 belonging to the Voepass Linhas Aéreas company, carrying 58 passengers and 4 crew members. pic.twitter.com/a3vhqBfTEX
— David Ordaz (@david_ordaz) August 9, 2024
The device, from the airline Voepassfell vertically, spinning on itself, until it crashed into a vegetation zone within a residential development, near a home.
There were no survivors among the 61 occupants of the plane, including 57 passengers and 4 crew members, according to Brazilian authorities.
The aircraft, a twin-engine ATR-72-500 model, was travelling between the cities of Cascavel and São Paulo and crashed shortly before 1:25 p.m. local time (4:25 p.m. GMT), when it was about 80 kilometres from reaching Guarulhos airport, its destination.
Read: Passenger plane crashes in Sao Paulo; no survivors (VIDEO)
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2024-08-18 09:48:58