Terrifying new vids show Brazil plane’s full ‘death spiral’ as passengers endured plunge before fireball crash killed 62
TERRIFYING new videos show the "death spiral" plunge of a doomed plane as it fell back to earth before crashing in a fireball killing 62.
Full footage shows the plane's agonising, out-of-control spin in Brazil's worst plane crash in 17 years.
Two doctors from the Uopeccan Cancer Hospital in Cascavel, Mariana Belim and Ariane Risso, were among the passengers who died.
Three-year-old Liz Ibba dos Santos, the youngest victim of the disaster, was travelling with her father, Rafael Fernando dos Santos.
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The newly emerged videos show the plane's twisting fall - with one showing the plunge lasting at least 30 seconds.
The aircraft's engines can be heard buzzing and struggling as the packed passenger plane spins.
Locals on the ground can be heard screaming over the noise as they helplessly watch on.
In one piece of footage, the cameraman follows the plane's fall until it disappears behind a house with a crash and then silence.
And another new video shows the plane's fall for a full 18 seconds before it vanishes behind a building and out of sight.
The footage reveals the full terror that passengers on board would have endured in the plane's agonisingly long fall from the sky.
It came as officials have confirmed they have found the plane's black box - the key, indestructible data recorder found on all aircraft.
It is hoped the device will provide key clues into the cause of the deadly plane crash.
Families of the 62 victims now face a desperate wait for answers.
Shocking footage showed the Voepass aircraft in an uncontrollable "death spiral" towards the ground in Sao Paulo state on Friday.
Onlookers were horrified as the out-of-control plane plummeted back to earth and smashed into a garden.
The plane was seen in a terrifying video spinning in circles before the fireball crash left no survivors.
He added that once a jet begins to plummet into a death spiral it is "very hard to get out of it".
The most likely reason for the issue may have been a low speed stall, the captain claims.
This occurs when the airflow going over a jet is too slow meaning the plane isn't able lift up like it is supposed to.
It most commonly occurs when a plane is moving at a slow pace.
The pilot of the fatal flight - 35-year-old Captain Danilo Santos is highly unlikely to have been the cause.
Romano, from Sao Paulo had plenty of experience, logging over 4,500 hours, and working as a pilot for more than a decade.
FlightRadar24 said the jet was a 14-year-old ATR 72-500 turboprop, short-haul regional airliner.
They also found that the last minute showed the plane's transponder record a vertical speed between 8,000 and 24,000 feet per minute.
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This roughly translates to a speed of 273 miles per hour at most.