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A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed on Friday outside Sao Paulo, Brazil, killing all on board, according to the Brazilian authorities.
The airline operating the flight, VoePass, said that Flight 2283 had crashed in the Brazilian city of Vinhedo, not far from its destination of Sao Paulo. The flight had taken off from Cascavel, Brazil, about 724 km away, for a nearly two-hour scheduled flight that VoePass has been operating daily.“There is still no confirmation of how the accident occurred,” the airline said in a statement.
Officials in Vinhedo said that no one survived the crash. The plane crashed in the yard of a home, but it did not hit any residences and no other people on the ground were injured, officials said.
Videos posted online showed a plane spiraling as it dropped from the sky. Some of the videos ended with an enormous black plume of smoke rising from the ground. Others showed what appeared to be the aftermath of the crash, with a destroyed plane and surrounding plants on fire.
Globo, Brazil’s main television network, interrupted Olympics coverage to broadcast aerial images that showed firefighters spraying a smoking gash in the ground, next to the shredded remains of a plane. Two buildings, which appeared to be residences, were badly damaged feet away.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, at an event on Friday, asked for a minute of silence for the people on board. “It seems that all have died,” he said.
According to FlightRadar24, a provider of flight data, the plane was an ATR 72, a twin-engine regional turboprop manufactured by ATR, a joint venture of two European aerospace manufacturers, Airbus and Leonardo. Brazilian aviation records show that the plane was manufactured in 2010, and was approved to carry up to 68 passengers.
The airline operating the flight, VoePass, said that Flight 2283 had crashed in the Brazilian city of Vinhedo, not far from its destination of Sao Paulo. The flight had taken off from Cascavel, Brazil, about 724 km away, for a nearly two-hour scheduled flight that VoePass has been operating daily.“There is still no confirmation of how the accident occurred,” the airline said in a statement.
Officials in Vinhedo said that no one survived the crash. The plane crashed in the yard of a home, but it did not hit any residences and no other people on the ground were injured, officials said.
Videos posted online showed a plane spiraling as it dropped from the sky. Some of the videos ended with an enormous black plume of smoke rising from the ground. Others showed what appeared to be the aftermath of the crash, with a destroyed plane and surrounding plants on fire.
Globo, Brazil’s main television network, interrupted Olympics coverage to broadcast aerial images that showed firefighters spraying a smoking gash in the ground, next to the shredded remains of a plane. Two buildings, which appeared to be residences, were badly damaged feet away.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, at an event on Friday, asked for a minute of silence for the people on board. “It seems that all have died,” he said.
According to FlightRadar24, a provider of flight data, the plane was an ATR 72, a twin-engine regional turboprop manufactured by ATR, a joint venture of two European aerospace manufacturers, Airbus and Leonardo. Brazilian aviation records show that the plane was manufactured in 2010, and was approved to carry up to 68 passengers.
