Passengers on the Latam plane, which was caught in a storm in the air, reported that they had moments of fear. Flight LA1325n departed Santiago, Chile and was on its way to Asunción, Paraguay, and had to land in Foz do Iguaçu (PR) due to poor conditions. However, after arriving in the capital of Paraguay, the bad weather continued and the plane made an emergency landing. According to the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color, the fuselage landed with a damaged windshield and without an engine.
There was also an old model among the passengers. pabla Thomas. In an interview with the newspaper, he said that he had a panic attack during and after the incident. “I traveled with my daughter. I restrained myself as best I could and did everything I could to calm her down and not feel what had happened,” she said.
“The sound was loud, my daughter started screaming, my seat belt came off and I screamed to ask her to help me put it back on. A man came to help me and my daughter hugged her. I started throwing up too.”
Pabla says that only her daughter accompanied her on the plane. “I hugged him, told him I loved him,” she said. He even added to his Monumental AM 1080 radio that he was saying goodbye to his own daughter.
I was saying goodbye to my daughter, telling her that I loved her, that I admired her and that we would always be together.
The terror only ended when the plane finally landed. “The flight attendants started screaming in English and then [o avião] started to slow down. Only then can we breathe. All the passengers there fled.”
Passengers shared images from inside the plane on social media.
Another passenger, identified as Guillermo Gómez, showed the plane’s windows in the middle of the storm.
“We nearly crashed trying to land in the middle of a brutal storm, diverted our flight to Foz, and then got us back into the same storm to arrive at any cost. It’s a crime for people to play with their lives,” he wrote.
Latam reported that the plane had to take a detour to Brazil at 18:43 local time and landed in Asunción was only possible at 23:09 due to bad weather conditions. The company said there were no injuries among passengers and crew, “which ground crews responded immediately upon arrival in Paraguay.” UOL.
“The weather conditions of the flight damaged the fuselage of the aircraft and affected operations. Any flight safety incident is considered serious for the airline.
In accordance with aviation regulations, LATAM Airlines Paraguay is cooperating with the authorities’ investigation into the incident.”
Carlos Santaruz, Paraguay’s Meteorological Department, told ABC Color that winds recorded during the storm reached 110 km/h as the plane made its first attempt at landing.
Felix Kanazawa, head of Dinac (Direção Nacional de Aeronautica Civil, in its free translation), reported that the accident was being investigated in collaboration with Chilean aviation authorities. “The investigation must be 100% transparent. Lives were at stake.”
Latam still regretted what had happened and reported that he was in contact with the flight’s customers to provide the necessary support.
source: Noticias
