A keyboardist filmed himself describing a plane-crash dream hours before dying in one

A keyboardist filmed himself describing a plane-crash dream hours before dying in one

Fear of sudden catastrophe: a musician told a hairdresser twice that he dreamed the plane would crash hours before a Learjet vanished from radar north of São Paulo, killing nine people - so how did an airworthy jet with no mechanical failures end up flying straight into terrain? Discover the sequence of cockpit decisions, a missed approach turned deadly, and the one left unanswered question: why did the crew turn toward Serra da Cantareira when every chart said turn away?

In this episode, we follow the final hours of Mamonas Assassinas and the flight that ended them, tracing the crew’s duty time, the aircraft’s condition, the approach into Guarulhos, and the critical decisions made in the cockpit that night to ask whether a different choice could have saved nine lives.

Person: Júlio César Barbosa (Júlio Rasec) Event: Learjet PT-LSD accident on March 2, 1996 Location: north of São Paulo, Serra da Cantareira Aircraft: Learjet 25 Delta, registration PT-LSD, built 1978, 6,123 flight hours Operator: Madrid Táxi Aéreo Ltda (no safety team; insurance lapsed)

- The band’s debut album sold three million copies. - Nine people were aboard the Learjet when it vanished from radar. - The crew had been on duty for roughly thirty-six hours before takeoff. - PT-LSD lifted off Brasília at 21:58 on March 2, 1996; São Paulo was about ninety minutes away. - The published missed-approach procedure required a right turn; the pilot deliberately turned left toward terrain roughly 3,300 feet high.

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