Silvia Santos, sister of Luciana Rodzewics, 46, and aunt of Letícia Rodzewics, 20, passengers on the missing helicopter on the north coast of São Paulo, believes that all passengers and pilot are alive. “The four of them are alive, they’re just waiting for us to get there, the woodsmen, the police, whoever.”
The statement was made this Tuesday (9), the day that completes nine days of searches, in a conversation with the press at Campo de Marte airport, where the aircraft took off on December 31st.
Luciana and Leticia's family met at the airport with the lawyer for pilot Cassiano Tete Teodoro, 44 years old. At the meeting, they decided to go down into the forest to help with the search. The pilot's family is already camping on the coast and hiring bushmen.
Silvia and Tete Teodoro's lawyer will travel, late this Tuesday morning (9), to Pouso Alto, a municipality in the south of the state of Minas Gerais.
“The only thing we need is to come together and help each other, we all just have the same goal”, says Silvia.
“We are going there (north coast) for this, to see in person what is being done. The family is destroyed. It’s distressing and painful,” says the family member. Despite the anguish of waiting for news of the helicopter's whereabouts, the family maintains hope of reuniting mother and daughter.
Family questions pilot's decision
On the day of the flight, Leticia Rodzewics sent a message to her boyfriend reporting that the helicopter had made an emergency landing and that there was a lot of fog at that time.
She said she was scared and added that the aircraft would try to return. The young woman was unable to specify where the group was.
In an interview with CNN on Sunday (7), the family members of passengers Luciana and Leticia questioned the pilot's decision to resume the flight after an emergency landing.
Neusa Rodzewics, mother and grandmother of the missing women, says that her granddaughter sent a video to her boyfriend when she made the emergency landing and he insisted that she not return.
“Why didn’t the pilot stay there and ask for help? Why did he have to leave there? Why did he want to fly if he had no fuel? He should have stayed there and waited for help, he would have resolved all this”, says Neusa.
Searches for the aircraft
This Tuesday (9), nine days of searching for the helicopter that disappeared in São Paulo complete. The aircraft left Campo de Marte airport, in the north of São Paulo, on the afternoon of the 31st and was destined for the city of Ilhabela, on the north coast. With bad weather in the region, the pilot reported difficulty completing the flight and even made an emergency landing before disappearing from radar.
The Civil Police uses cell phone location data from the four people who were on board the aircraft to try to locate clues that solve the mystery. According to the police, the last location of a device belonging to one of the missing people was registered in the Paraibuna region, in the interior of São Paulo.
The São Paulo Public Security Secretariat (SSP) informs that, after judicial authorization, agents from the Intelligence Unit of the Department of Strategic Police Operations (DOPE) had access to the location of antennas (ERBs) of the pilot's and passengers' cell phones. The objective is to try to locate the aircraft and its occupants.
Teams from the Military Police and the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) also participate in the rescue operation.
Source: CNN Brasil
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