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Chapecoense air crash survivor: 'Crew gave no warning' - BBC News
A survivor of the plane crash in Colombia in which 71 people were killed including most of Brazil's Chapecoense football team says the crew never gave the passengers any warning.
Rafael Henzel, a 43-year-old journalist travelling with Chapecoense on board the LaMia plane, said they were not even told to fasten their seatbelts.
Mr Henzel is one of only six people to survive the crash on 28 November.
Investigators believe the plane crashed because it ran out of fuel.
In his first interview since the accident, Mr Henzel told Brazil's Fantastico TV programme that the passengers had no warning of the impending crash.
"No one told us to fasten our seat belts," he said. "Every time we asked when we'd arrive we were told '10 minutes'." "Then the lights and the engines went off. That scared us somewhat, but we weren't warned of anything. We didn't know what was going on," Mr Henzel said.
He recalled how people rushed back to their seats when the plane went dark. But he said that no-one had expected the plane to crash.
It seems the flight crew were in a deep state of denial.