All 57 passengers and 4 crew members were killed in a plane crash near the Brazilian capital of São Paulo. The plane was making a domestic flight and crashed shortly before landing. The circumstances are not yet known.
The ATR72-500 had taken off from Cascavel just before noon local time and was on its way to Guarulhos, when the plane fell from the sky for an unknown reason near Vinhedo, a northwestern city on São Paulo with 76,000 inhabitants. The last signal was broadcast about an hour and a half after departure. A flight map from Flightradar shows that the plane made a sharp turn and lost about 4,000 meters of height in one minute. Before the crash, the air began to spin.
The cause is still unknown. But unofficial records show that the engines were still running when it crashed. And crashing: suddenly the plane seemed to stop moving, it started spinning and falling. On pictures of Globo news showed that the Voepass Linhas Aéreas turboprop plane lost altitude rapidly, after which a dark plume of smoke rose. Another video shows smoke coming from the fuselage of the plane. (Read more below the picture)
The local fire brigade of São Paulo said that they received a call at 1:25 pm (6:25 pm Belgian time). At least seven fire crews were dispatched to the scene. The director of the local police said that a forensic team is on the way to Vinhedo to identify the victims. The accident scene has been cordoned off.
The airline Voepass Linhas Aéreas reports that there were 61 people on board the plane. This concerns 57 passengers and 4 crew members. The airline “regrets to report that all 61 people on board Flight 2283 have died on the spot,” it said in a statement on Instagram.
According to the G1 news site, the plane crashed in a residential area, near a house. No one on the ground was injured, G1 said. (Continue reading below the video)
“All residents may be dead,” Brazilian President Lula da Silva said at an event in Itajai, southern Brazil. He then asked for a moment of silence for the victims. The mayor of a nearby city and Governor Tarcisio de Freitas of São Paulo confirmed minutes later that no one survived Flight 2283.
After that President Lula announced a three-day mourning period for the whole country, which started on Friday.
At the beginning of last year, a plane of the same type from Yeti Airlines also crashed in the Nepalese resort town of Pokhara. All 72 passengers died in the crash.
2024-08-10 05:12:55
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