A aircraft has crashed within the Brazilian state of São Paulo, killing all 61 individuals on board.
The dual-engine turboprop aircraft was flying from Cascavel within the southern state of Paraná to Guarulhos airport in São Paulo metropolis when it got here down within the city of Vinhedo, the Voepass airline mentioned.
Footage circulating on social media confirmed a aircraft descending vertically, spiralling because it fell.
The aircraft was carrying 57 passengers and 4 crew. Native authorities mentioned there have been no survivors.
The airline had initially mentioned there have been 58 passengers, however later revised its determine.
Authorities mentioned the aircraft landed in a residential space, however no-one on the bottom was injured.
They mentioned just one house within the native condominium complicated had been broken, whereas not one of the residents had been harm.
Brazil’s GloboNews tv community confirmed photos of a giant space on fireplace and smoking wreckage in an space full of homes.
Police and fireplace companies are on the scene and native hospitals have been alerted.
In line with monitoring web site Flightradar24, the aircraft was in-built 2010 and left Cascavel at 11:56 native time (14:56 GMT). The final sign acquired from the plane was about an hour and a half later.
It’s Brazil’s worst aircraft crash since 2007, when a TAM Specific aircraft crashed and burst into flames at São Paulo’s Congonhas airport, killing199 individuals.
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, paid tribute to the victims at an occasion he was talking at.
“I’ve to be the bearer of very unhealthy information and I would really like everybody to face up in order that we will have a minute of silence,” he advised his viewers.
He posted on social media the information of the crash was “Very unhappy. All my solidarity to the households and mates of the victims.”
The close by city of Valinhos despatched 20 emergency personnel to the crash web site as a part of a joint operation, native authorities mentioned.
“Twenty males had been mobilised, together with three autos from the Valinhos Municipal Civil Guard and one automobile from the Civil Protection,” Valinhos Metropolis Corridor mentioned in a press release.
The governor of São Paulo state, Tarcísio de Freitas, can be heading to the scene.
The aircraft’s producer ATR mentioned in a press release that it had been knowledgeable of an accident involving an ATR 72-500.
“Our first ideas are with all of the people affected by this occasion. The ATR specialists are totally engaged to help each the investigation and the shopper,” the Franco-Italian aircraft maker mentioned.
