Investigators uncovered the plane’s black box, which contains the cockpit recordings
The transcript revealing the last words of the pilots of the passenger jet that tragically crashed and killed everyone on board has been uncovered.
Investigators have discovered the plane’s black box, meaning that the ‘full transcript’ from the voice recorder of the Voe Pass Airlines plane that crashed on Friday (9 August) is now accessible.
The plane was carrying 62 people, believed to be 58 passengers and four crew members, as it was travelling from Cascavel, in Parana to Guarulhos, in Sao Paulo.
It was reported that the aircraft crashed in the residential area of Vinhedo, home to over 80,000 people, with Sao Paulo’s fire brigade rushing to the city shortly after the incident – luckily, nobody on the ground was injured.
The site also found that the flight was flying at 17,000 feet before it crashed, and a ‘severe icing’ warning had been sent out at an altitude between 12,000 feet and 21,000 feet.
According to Sky News, icing issues can reduce an aircraft’s thrust, therefore decreasing its lift and increasing its drag – two things you don’t want happening in mid-air.
One passenger on board sent a selfie to her parents before take-off, sharing her concern at the ‘old plane’ that had her feeling ‘afraid of this flight’, before the aircraft’s fatal ending.
Footage of the crash has gone viral on social media, showing the aircraft descending at speed, not in an expected nosedive, but rather spinning completely out of control before crashing.
The plane horrifically spun out of control before its tragic end. (X)
The reason behind its crash is still unknown, though uncovering the aircraft’s black box has revealed what the pilots said before the plane spun out of the sky.
According to the transcript, both the pilot and copilot noticed a steep loss in altitude just one minute before the crash, according to local TV station Globo, who cited unnamed people from the investigation on Wednesday (14 August).
The two-hour recording revealed that copilot Humberto de Campos Alencar e Silva, 61, asked pilot Danilo Santos Romano, 35, ‘what is going on?’
Silva also said that the plane needed ‘more power’ to stabilise the aircraft.
Following the crash, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in a video via CNN: ““I would like everyone to stand up so that we can observe a minute of silence because a plane has just crashed in the city of Vinhedo, in São Paulo, with 58 passengers and four crew members and it appears they all died.”
Pilot Danilo Santos Romano didn’t have an answer for his copilot. (LinkedIn)
The director of operations for Voe Pass, Marcelo Moura, shared that even though there was an ice warning in place, the aircraft was in an acceptable window.
A full statement on the matter from Voe Pass said: “The aircraft took off from Cascavel-PR bound for Guarulhos Airport, with 58 passengers and four crew members on board. VOEPASS has taken all measures to support those involved.
“There is still no confirmation of how the accident occurred or the current situation of the people on board. The Company is providing support via telephone at 0800 9419712, available 24 hours a day, providing information to all its passengers, family members and employees.”
Passenger sent selfie and messages to family before Brazil plane crashed and killed everyone on board
All 62 people on board the Voepass plane were killed in the crash in Brazil
One of the 62 passengers who were killed in a plane crash in Brazil sent a heartbreaking message to her family before she died.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of a tragic incident that killed everyone travelling on board Voepass’ ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop.
The plane left Cascavel Regional Airport at 11.56am in Cascavel, Paraná, and was heading to for Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo on Friday (9 August).
62 people were killed in the Brazil plane crash.(Nelson ALMEIDA/AFP/NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images)
Sadly the aircraft didn’t make it to the airport after it crashed in the town of Vinhedo in São Paulo.
Voepass said in a statement: “The aircraft took off from Cascavel-PR bound for Guarulhos Airport, with 58 passengers and four crew members on board. VOEPASS has taken all measures to support those involved.
“There is still no confirmation of how the accident occurred or the current situation of the people on board.
“The Company is providing support via telephone at 0800 9419712, available 24 hours a day, providing information to all its passengers, family members and employees.”
It was later confirmed that all 62 people on board the plane had died.
Authorities are still determining what happened. (MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL/AFP/MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Rosana Santos Xavier, 23, was one of the passengers who lost her life in the crash.
The woman from Franco da Rocha, in Greater São Paulo, was the main source of income of the family and was travelling for work, her mum told TV Globo.
As soon as she boarded, she messaged the family group chat, writing: “I’m afraid of this flight, I swear, old plane. There’s a broken armchair, chaos.”
After complaining about the two-hour flight, she sent a selfie to her mum Rosemeire Xavier.
Rosana Santos Xavier sent a selfie her mother before the crash (TV Globo)
The mother said she had a bad feeling after receiving the texts and ‘screamed’ when she saw the news of the plane crash on the TV.
“I got desperate. I started running inside the house screaming,” she said.
Her daughter usually worked from home, but every two months she travelled for a meeting with the company she worked for in Toledo.
As authorities are still working to work out the cause of the crash, Brazilian aviation expert Lito Sousa speculates that weather conditions alone might not explain what happened.
Rosana Santos Xavier was among the 62 people who died (TV Globo)
He said: “Analysing an air crash just with images can lead to wrong conclusions about the causes.
“But we can see a plane with loss of support, no horizontal speed. In this flat spin condition, there’s no way to reclaim control of the plane.”
Meanwhile, eyewitness and local resident Ana Lucia told reporters that she ‘thought it was going to fall in our yard’.
“It was scary, but thank God there were no victims among the locals. It seems that the 62 people inside the plane were the real victims, though,” she added.
