On page 40, post 792 I pasted some links relating the crew survivor's account.
"When the
emergency lights were lit Ximena (FA) sensed that something was happening" said Erwin Tumiri.
?Cuando se prendieron las luces de emergencia Ximena presintió que algo pasaba? | Noticias de Bolivia y el Mundo - EL DEBER
In ^ he also
refuted the previous Radio journalist's report - says he never actually said that he got into foetal position etc.
And he also refuted the earlier report about panic:
The pilot only mentioned that we prepare for landing, we were not alarmed because the decline did was the type of movement to land. There was no panic or anything. The only detail was that the stewardess told me to fasten well, then something happened.
http://correodelsur.com/seguridad/20...ilo-lamia.html
Whether he's believable or not is moot but note that he had only flown with LaMia on three occasions.
OTOH the first statement from FA Suarez suggests that she knew, before they crashed, that they had run out of fuel. You can read the post-rescue comments attributed to her here:
"El avión se apagó por completo antes de caer" | Noticias de Bolivia y el Mundo - EL DEBER
OTOH the surviving journalist Henzel, here says the alarm was due to "turbulencia" and he was seated in "penultimate row".
http://eju.tv/2016/12/el-periodista-...ente-de-lamia/
Other updates
Co-pilot, Ovar Goytia, was not authorised to fly the Chapo charter, co-owner Rocha was meant to be flying. (Arrest warrant imminent for Rocha, his lawyer has confirmed his whereabouts.) Goytia had previously flown many of the football charters with LaMia and was also ex-FAB and according to his son, had "decades of flying experience."
re compensation offer from LaMia: USD 165K compensation per person offered to the families of the 71 people who died.
La absurda cifra que ofrece LAMIA para indemnizar a familiares de las víctimas del Chapecoense - eju.tv
Bolivian Defence Minister statement: "the fact that Lamia travelled with insufficient fuel to other countries shows that the company had it's influence beyond Bolivia." (This Minister has been throwing quite a few accusations around in the press re PF Quiroga's Father-in-law Pinto. )
re TAM. Opposition politicians increase pressure noting that TAM were also flying in contravention of ICAO rules, without valid insurance for some of their commercial flights and not all their planes were registered with the DGAC.
The last director of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC), Virgilio Pereira and previous incumbent Luis Coimbra, will be subpoenaed to testify. Press reports that the latter had refused to give LaMia it's operator license and then was sacked and replaced by Pereira whereupon the license was approved very quickly. ( All these organisations are governed through political appointments of ex-military men into powerful positions but I suppose it's a positive sign that currently the investigation is extending beyond middle management figures. )