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[VIDEO] How The Plane Crashed in Brazil’s Sao Paulo State Killing All 61 People On Board
The Brazilian airline Voepass confirmed on Friday that the plane crashed northeast of the city of Sao Paulo.
“The company regrets to inform that all 61 people on board flight 2283 died at the site,” Voepass said in a statement.
🚨🇧🇷Major plane crash in Brazil!
— James Rizk (@JamesRizk1) August 9, 2024
Expected dead 58 Passengers and 4 crew!
Plane exploded near houses but no people damaged yet on the ground hopefully.
More updates to come! pic.twitter.com/tgX4MS29ig
“At this time, Voepass is prioritising provision of unrestricted assistance to the victims’ families and effectively collaborating with authorities to determine the causes of the accident.”
Prior to the update, the airline stated that 62 people were on board the flight.
Officials in Valinhos confirmed that there were no survivors and that only one home in a local residential complex was damaged in the area where the plane crashed, but no one was injured.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva expressed his condolences to the victims’ families earlier on Friday.
“I must be the bearer of very bad news, and I wanted all to stand up so we can take one minute of silence because a plane just fell in the town of Vinhedos in Sao Paulo … and it seems that all of them passed,” he said at an event shortly after the crash.
“So I’d like to ask for a minute of silence for the victims.”
The news outlet Globo released images of the plane’s flaming wreckage in the state of Sao Paulo.
UPDATE – BRAZIL
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SAN PAULO PLANE CRASH
Radar data – rapid plummet- beyond ability of control – dropping 70,000 thousand feet in 2 mins –
1 Engine at least was NOT WORKING!! I am correct on my information- I STRIVE to put out honest factual news worldwide – pic.twitter.com/kwyig5oxnK
According to the Associated Press, a video obtained from a bystander and verified by the news agency revealed at least two bodies among the plane’s ruins.
“It just dropped out of the sky, fell on top of a house; luckily, there was nobody in the house,” Al Jazeera correspondent Monica Yanakiew reported from Rio de Janeiro.
“But by the images we’ve been seeing, everyone is really likely to be dead, because the plane was totally destroyed.”
Yanakiew also stated that the incident is being described as the worst of its kind in modern Brazilian history.
Firefighters, military police, and the country’s civil defence authority have all dispatched workers to the crash site, which has been sealed off by authorities.
“The general director of the Federal Police, Andrei Passos, reported that an investigation and forensics team, with experts in identifying disaster victims,” Globo reported.
This man wasn’t allowed to board the plane that just crashed in Vinhedo in São Paulo, Brazil because he was LATE.
— Cillian (@CilComLFC) August 9, 2024
He argued with the man at the boarding gate, but ended up hugging him after hearing the plane had crashed.
This is unbelievable… 🙏 pic.twitter.com/wrplK3lVr4
The outlet also reported that Sao Paulo Governor Tarcisio de Freitas is on his way to the crash site.
The air traffic tracker Flightradar24 said in a social media post that the aircraft was an ATR72-500 built in 2010 and was on its way to Sao Paulo from the Cascavel airport in the southern state of Parana.
[VIDEO] How The Plane Crashed in Brazil’s Sao Paulo State Killing All 61 People On Board
