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    Horrifying video captures plane with 62 people onboard crashing in fiery Brazil wreck – with no reported survivors

    By Olivia Land, David Propper,

    7 hours ago

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    A passenger plane crashed in a fiery wreck in a residential part of Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday afternoon, killing all 62 people on board – moments after harrowing video captured the aircraft spiraling out of control.

    The airline operating the flight, Voepass, said its twin-engine turboprop plane was en route to Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport with 58 passengers and four crew members on board when it went down in the city of Vinhedo.

    There were no survivors, local authorities said, according to the BBC .

    No one on the ground was injured after the plane dropped an incredible 17,000 feet in about a minute, CNN reported, citing flight tracking data.

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    A plane carrying 62 people crashed in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state on Friday, local media reported. GloboNews TV Brazil
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    Brazilian television network showed footage of smoke coming out of an apparent plane fuselage in a residential area full of houses. GloboNews TV Brazil

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    The Brazilian television network GloboNews aired footage of the plane listing and drifting downwards for a few seconds before spiraling and crashing behind a group of trees, just out of view of the camera.

    The network also showed footage of fire and smoke coming from what looked like a mangled plane fuselage in an area of residential homes.

    Other video of the fiery aftermath shows two bodies strewn among flaming wreckage.

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    Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said it appeared that all passengers and crew aboard had died. Claudia Vitorino via Globo TV

    “I thought it was going to fall in our yard,” a resident and witness who said her name was Ana Lucia told reporters near the crash site.

    “It was scary, but thank God there were no victims among the locals. It seems that the 62 people inside the plane were the real victims, though.”

    One resident who videotaped some of the crash’s aftermath told CNN as she saw the plane fall through the sky, she ducked down in horror and prayed.

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    She called it a “moment of panic” for the entire city.

    Uma notícia muito triste. Toda minha solidariedade aos familiares e amigos das vítimas. pic.twitter.com/eb47itDbe8

    — Lula (@LulaOficial) August 9, 2024
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    Firefighters, military police and the civil defense authority dispatched teams to the crash site. Globo TV
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    Footage on GloboNews showed a plane drifting downward vertically, spiraling as it fell. Breno Loschi/Instagram

    The ATR72-500 was built in 2010 in Europe, according to Flightradar24.

    The doomed aircraft took off from Cascavel at 11:56 local time, and its last signal was transmitted about an hour and half later.

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    When he heard about the crash, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asked the crowd at an event in southern Brazil to observe a moment of silence.

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    The ATR72-500 was built in 2010 in Europe, according to Flightradar24. Globo TV

    “I would like everyone to stand up so that we can observe a minute of silence because a plane has just crashed in the city of Vinhedo, in São Paulo, with 58 passengers and four crew members and it appears they all died,” he said in a video that was posted on X.

    No cause for the crash has been released.

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    No cause for the crash has been released. GloboNews TV Brazil

    “We don’t know if there was any kind of mid-air collision, whether there was an engine failure. We just don’t have enough facts,” CNN aviation analyst Peter Goetz told the outlet.

    Plane manufacturer of the ATR72-500, French-Italian ATR, said in a statement it was informed of an accident involving that model of plane and officials are “fully engaged to support both the investigation and the customer.”

    “Our first thoughts are with all the individuals affected by this event,” it said.

    With Post wires

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