Nine years. Those are the ones that will be fulfilled this Saturday, November 29, Chapecoense tragedy. That plane crash from which only six of the 77 passengers emerged alive. One of them, the footballer Alan Ruschelwho now wanted to recall the terrible episode in a talk with the newspaper ‘MARCA’.
“I I remember everything until the moment of impact. The pilot announced that we were going to land, we made a turn, another turn and nothing… we didn’t land. Suddenly, on one of those turns, all the lights on the plane went out, everything became silent. Nobody screamed, there was no panicjust that feeling of “what’s happening? Then there was very strong turbulence, the alarm sounded inside the plane… and then I don’t remember anything else. I guess it was the moment of impact,” he began by saying.
Luck was on his side from the beginning, when he decided to change places: “I knew it was going to be a long trip and I wanted to travel alone, to lie down in a row of seats at the back. We all got in and when one of the last ones arrived, a journalist, he sat next to me. Then I thought ‘I’m not going to be able to lie down’. Right at that moment, Follmann looked at me and called me to sit with him. “The plane had no problem.”
“The people who rescued me told me that I was in a state of shock, that I asked them to call my father, that I handed over my documents, my wedding ring… but I don’t remember any of that. They told me that I kept repeating that I was cold, that my back and arm hurt. He had a stick stuck in his arm.that’s why I have a huge scar there and also my back hurt a lot. In fact, they had to operate on me because I had several fractured vertebrae,” he continued.
“When the doctor of Chapecó saw the images, he told me later that he thought I had lost my mobility forever, that I wouldn’t walk again. He said the spinal injury was so severe it had probably affected the spinal cord. When he arrived at the hospital, he gave me a test: he took a needle and started pricking my foot to see if I felt anything. I felt. And there he said ‘okay, then there’s a good chance I’ll walk again,'” he said.
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And he added: “In the end, it was incredible because an injury like that normally takes 50 or 60 days to start walking again. I In a week, ten days, I was already on my feet“, he celebrated.
“I had no idea what had happened. When I woke up, I asked about people, about my colleagues, and no one told me anything. The doctors were advised not to tell me what had happened all at once, only when the psychologist arrived. When they finally told me what had happened, I was frozen, without reacting. “It was a very big shock,” he said.
