In more bad news, a plane exploded in mid-air over the Sao Paulo state, and all the 62 passengers on board were killed.
The twin-engine turboprop was traveling from Cascavel in the southern state of Paraná to Guarulhos airport in São Paulo city when it crash-landed on Friday in the town of Vinhedo, local Voepass airline said.
Videos trending online capture a plane that is falling straight, like a helicopter, yet is an airplane. While some sources indicated that there were 62 passengers on board the ATR 72-500, Voepass clarified on Saturday, that out of sixty-two, fifty-eight were passengers while four were crew members. There were no survivors.
Brazil’s President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned the event showing sympathy to the families and friends of the dead persons. São Paulo’s state Governor Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas ordered three days of mourning across the state after the plane crash.
The authorities stated that the body of the aircraft had been recovered as well as flight recorders. ATR, the French-Italian planemaker, said it would cooperate in the investigation.
The aircraft crash-landed in a densely populated neighborhood but fortunately, the people on the ground were not harmed. Authorities are also claiming that out of all the structures in a particular condominium complex, only one was affected.
The aircraft that was intended for Guarulhos, Brazil, impacted in Vinhedo — a suburb of the city’s western area. CNN using geography has been able to confirm the incident by stating that the passenger plane crashed beside a home in Vinhedo.
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This aircraft that crashed has registration number PS-VPB and is an ATR 72-500 model with a total carrying capacity of as many as 74 people, based on information from Flightradar24.
Emergency groups throughout the night in the early hours of Saturday were involved in lifting the bodies of the dead passengers and crew who were burnt to death in a Voepass airline flight crash just outside Vinhedo city.
Cristo said the bodies’ position on the crashed aircraft, physical traits, papers, and other effects, including people’s mobile phones were being taken to help with the process of identifying the deceased; this he was saying at the scene of the incident on Saturday. Brazil Air Force ‘still unsure over ice role in crash’ / Lt Col Carlos Henrique Baldi of the Brazil Air Force’s centure for the Investigation and Prevention of Air Accidents speaking to reporters at a news conference on Friday.
Responding to the reporters on Friday in Vinhedo, the Secretary of Public Security of Sao Paulo stated that the black box of the plane in question had been retrieved and seemed to be in good condition.
