Details have been shаrеd about some of the 62 victims of a tragic plane crash in Brazil on Friday.
On Friday afternoon, a passenger plane crashed in a residential part of Sao Paulo state in Brazil after being filmed spiraling out of control in the air.
Voepass, the airline operating the flight, confirmed that the twin-engine turboprop plane was en route to Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport with 58 passengers and four crew members on board when it crashed in the city of Vinhedo.
Tragically, all 62 people on board the flight were kiIIed in the crash.
Many of the victims on board the fateful flight have now been named, including the ‘experienced’ pilot who was in charge of the aircraft.
Captain Danilo Santos Romano, 35, was the first victim identified in the wake of the disaster.
He had been working as a pilot for over 10 years and had been with the Voepass airline since 2022 according to his LinkedIn page, and had logged over 4,500 flight hours.
A colleague who’d endorsed him had said Romano was “always smiling” and “willing to help”.
Romano also appeared to enjoy sports in his downtime, with photos from Facebook showing him running a recent 15K race and celebrating the Palmeiras football club.
Officials confirmed that Romano was in the cockpit of the twin-engine ATR 72-500 plane that went down in a residential neighborhood.
Co-pilot Humberto de Campos Alencar e Silva, 61, was also named, as well as flight attendants Débora Soper Avila, 29, and Rubia Silva de Lima, 41, according to the flight manifest, as reported by Globo TV News.
Other victims included an elderly couple – José Cloves Arruda, 76, and his wife Maria Auxiliadora vaz de Arruda, 74, while the youngest known passenger to die on board was three-year-old Liz Ibba dos Santos, who was traveling with her father, 41-year-old Rafael Fernando dos Santos, where they had planned to spend Brazilian Father’s Day together in Santa Caterina, according to Globo TV News.
The flight also contained several doctors who were heading to a seminar, including Arianne Albuquerque Estavan Risso and Mariana Comiran Belim, who were both clinical oncology residents from the Cascavel Cancer Hospital (Uopeccan).
The hospital paid tribute to the young doctors, saying in a statement that they “treated all patients with great dedication, affection, and respect.”
The statement added: “It is no wonder that the two were frequently praised by our ombudsman offices. The love that they both had for their profession was very clear.
“Now, all that is left for us is the longing and memories of two young doctors who left us too soon.”
