A PLANE has crashed in Brazil killing all 62 on board after it horrifically dropped out of the sky and crashed into the bottom.
Stunning footage confirmed the turboprop spiralling right down to earth earlier right this moment earlier than it exploded in an enormous fireball subsequent to a home.
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The plane smashed into the bottom in a residential space of the town of Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, with locals videoing the aircraft dropping and crashing.
Locals approached the fiery wreck on the bottom and captured the destroyed fuselage burning.
Our bodies might be seen mendacity amongst the particles, however it’s not but clear what the reason for the crash is.
The close by home was additionally burning as a helicopter circled above.
Native information confirmed the hearth had been extinguished by 7.30pm UK time with firefighters working amidst the wreckage.
The tragedy occurred in Sao Paulo state at about 1.25pm right this moment Brazilian time after the aircraft took off at noon.
Valinhos Metropolis Corridor has confirmed all on board are lifeless and that no residents on the bottom have been injured or killed.
The Brazilian airline which operated the flight confirmed the crash in an announcement to native media G1.
The assertion from airline Voepass Linhas Aéreas confirmed the aircraft took off with 62 folks on board.
4 of the folks have been reported to be crew, with 58 passengers.
Flight 2283 reportedly took off from Cascavel, Parana state, and was destined for Sao Paulo metropolis’s predominant worldwide airport – Guarulhos.
The assertion from the airline mentioned: “Voepass has taken all measures to help these concerned.
“There may be nonetheless no affirmation of how the accident occurred or the present scenario of the folks on board.”
At an occasion in southern Brazil right this moment, President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva requested the group to face and observe a minute of silence.
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He mentioned that it appeared that every one passengers and crew aboard had died, with out elaborating as to how that info had been obtained.
Firefighters, army police and the civil protection authority dispatched groups to the crash website in Vinhedo.
Native media reported the kind of aircraft was a turboprop ATR-72-500, made by French producer ATR.
Flight monitoring website Flightradar24 mentioned this explicit aircraft was a 14-year-old mannequin inbuilt 2010.
Over 1,200 of the planes have been constructed since 1988 when it entered service.
The aircraft usually has a seating capability of 72 passengers.
Brazilian Federal Police and the nation’s aviation authority have opened investigations into the crash.
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