Employees of the store hit by the plane crash were saved due to the delay: ‘Despair’

Employees of the store hit by the plane crash were saved due to the delay: ‘Despair’


The employees of a shop hit by a fall were saved by arriving late for work; plane crashed in the city of Gramado, causing casualties




This Sunday morning (22), a tragic accident shook the city of Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul. A plane crash destroyed businesses and homes around Avenida das HortĂȘnsias. After the accident, the director of one of the affected factories said that she was saved due to a delay in getting to work.

Employees saved from delay

In an interview with Band newsthe store manager said she had decided to go to work later and, therefore, was not affected. “We worked normally, but today when I woke up it was raining heavily, with thick fog. So I decided to go to the company a little later. When I arrived, around 9.30, everything had already happened”reported.

According to her, the shop was completely lost due to the accident. Faced with what happened, he remembered another company employee who was also supposed to arrive at work. “My despair was that my colleague was leaving at 8.30 and I wanted to hear from him, Amaury. Nobody let us pass and he didn’t answer the phone. But thank God, today he also decided to be a little late”he said.

Colleagues’ concern

Edsonmanager of another store near the accident site, said he was also worried for his colleagues when he heard about the accident. “We normally open at 10. My concern is that the shop where the plane crashed was new, two months old. We have friends who work there and our concern was that people had already arrived to open the shop”he spoke. “But as soon as I arrived I met one of the police officers and he told me that the shop was still closed and no one was there”he explained.

What happened?

A small plane crashed in Avenida das HortĂȘnsias, in Gramado, hitting surrounding shops and houses. The plane had taken off from Canela airport bound for JundiaĂ­, in Sao Paulo. During the flight, the plane collided with the chimney of a building, hitting the city’s businesses.

The fall caused a fire and destroyed part of the structures involved. The nine crew members of the plane died in the accident, as well as 15 people injured on the ground, mainly due to smoke inhalation.

Source: Terra

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