A plane operated by the Brazilian airline VoePass crashed in the country’s Sao Paulo state on Friday, killing all people on board, the company said Friday.
The aircraft involved in the fiery wreck in a residential area in the city of Vinhedo was carrying 57 passengers and four crew, according to The Associated Press. The number of 61 total people on board was revised to 62 by the airline on Saturday, after it found a passenger not on its original list.
The plane departed from Cascavel, Brazil, in the state of Parana.”The company regrets to inform that all [62] people on board flight 2283 died locally,” the airline said in a statement.
Firefighters, military police and the civil defense authority all dispatched teams to the crash site.
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT TO HAWAIIAN ISLAND PLUNGES, COMES WITHIN 400 FEET OF PACIFIC OCEAN: REPORTBrazilian TV network GloboNews showed aerial footage of an area on fire with smoke coming out of an obliterated plane fuselage. Additional footage showed the plane drifting downward vertically, spiraling as it fell.
“I thought it was going to fall in our yard,” a resident and witness who gave her name only as Ana Lucia told reporters near the crash site. “It was scary, but thank God there were no victims among the locals. It seems that the 62 people inside the plane were the real victims, though.”
This frame grab from video shows fire coming from a plane that crashed by a home in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Friday. (Felipe Magalhaes Filho via AP)
The Capela neighborhood where the plane crashed sits far from the center of the city that’s home to 77,000 residents.
