Two travelers who missed boarding the airplane that crashed in Brazil on Friday are sharing their stories after all 61 people aboard died on the flight.
Adriano Assis was hurrying to Cascavel Regional Airport to catch the Voepass Airlines flight that was scheduled to take off at 11:56 a.m. He made it to the airport around 9:40, the Daily Mail reported.
Incredible story of passengers who missed doomed Voepass flight before plane crashed in Brazil: ‘I begged to be let on’ https://t.co/lkMTZX7mYl pic.twitter.com/J9ZDIcWJF9
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“I waited until it was 10:40 am or so. [Then] the guy said I wouldn’t be boarding anymore because it was an hour before [takeoff],” he explained, adding he begged the agent to let him on the plane to get back to São Paulo.
“At that moment, I argued with him and stuff, and that was it, and he saved my…