A passenger plane crashed in a fiery wreck in a residential part of Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday afternoon, killing all 62 people on board – moments after harrowing video captured the aircraft spiraling out of control.
The airline operating the flight, Voepass, said its twin-engine turboprop plane was en route to Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport with 58 passengers and four crew members on board when it went down in the city of Vinhedo.
There were no survivors, local authorities said, according to the BBC.
No one on the ground was injured.
The Brazilian television network GloboNews aired footage of the plane listing and drifting downwards for a few seconds before spiraling and crashing behind a group of trees, just out of view of the camera.
The network also showed footage of fire and smoke coming from what looked like a mangled plane fuselage in an area of residential homes.
The ATR72-500 was built in 2010 in Europe, according to Flightradar24.
The doomer aircraft took off from Cascavel at 11:56 local time, and its last signal was transmitted about an hour and half later.
When he heard about the crash, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asked the crowd at an event in southern Brazil to observe a moment of silence.
“I would like everyone to stand up so that we can observe a minute of silence because a plane has just crashed in the city of Vinhedo, in São Paulo, with 58 passengers and four crew members and it appears they all died,” he said in a video that was posted on X.
No cause for the crash has been released.
“We don’t know if there was any kind of mid-air collision, whether there was an engine failure. We just don’t have enough facts,” CNN aviation analyst Peter Goetz told the outlet.
With Post wires
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