Published 2024-08-15 23.47
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The mate turned to the captain and asked what was going on.
Then only screams were heard.
Seconds later, flight 2283 crashed with 62 people on board.
The communication between the pilots shows how quickly the routine approach turned into desperate panic.
About 60 seconds after the on-board disaster occurred, the plane plunged to the ground.
Terrible images were spread around the world when the plane, type ATR-72, from the airline Voepass went into a spin and crashed in a residential area outside São Paulo a week ago.
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fullscreenFire after the crash. Photo: Felipe Magalhaes Filho / AP
Baffling the experts
All 62 on board died in the crash about eight miles from the airport.
Amazingly, no one on the ground was injured.
The accident occurred when the plane was early in the approach to the airport in São Paulo and still at a high altitude.
The mysterious crash baffles the experts.
– Here we have a relatively unusual process, aviation expert Jan Olsson told Aftonbladet after the crash about the way the plane fell.
– It is unusual, rare and strange.
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full screen Images from the impact site. Photo: Andre Penner / AP
The horror in the cockpit
The Brazilian accident commission has recovered the black box and begun examining the data to solve the mystery of the rapidly falling plane.
The TV channel TV Globo has seen a transcript of the communication between the pilots in the cockpit. The transcript consists of more than two hours of communication, states the TV channel according to Sky News.
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full screen The next day, emergency services work at the scene. Photo: Andre Penner/AP
But it is the last seconds that are of greatest interest to the investigators.
About a minute before the crash, the pilots realized they were rapidly losing altitude. The mate turned to the captain and asked what happened, TV Globo reports.
He also said the plane “needed more power”.
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full screen On social media, videos are spread on the plane.
Children among the dead
They quickly lost all control and the plane plunged straight into the ground.
In the last seconds, only screams were heard in the cockpit on the audio recording.
The rescue personnel have recovered all the dead after the crash. According to local authorities, 34 men and 28 women died in the accident.
Among the dead are a three-year-old girl, a four-year-old boy and a couple who leave behind three children, writes CNN.
All passengers were Brazilian citizens.
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full screen The accident occurred when the plane was early in the approach to the airport in São Paulo. Photo: Dario Lopez-Mills/AP