Brazil In the state of Sao Paulo on Friday one The plane According to the airline, 61 people, including 57 passengers and four crew members, died in the crash.
According to the news agency AFP, this ATR 72-500 of Vopas Airlines was flying from Cascaville in the southern Paraná state to the Gorolhos International Airport in Sao Paulo when it crashed in the city of Vinhedo.
Vopass initially said there were 58 passengers on board, but later put the number at 57 in a statement released on the airline’s website.
A video broadcast on local media showed a large plane plummeting vertically, while other footage showed smoke billowing from the crash site, which appeared to be a residential area.
The city government of Villeneuve, which was involved in the rescue and recovery operation in the nearby town of Vinhedo, told AFP that ‘no one survived.’
Vinhedo has a population of approximately 76,000 residents, located approximately 80 kilometers northwest of São Paulo.
Sao Paulo state governor Tarcisio de Freitas told reporters at the scene that work had begun to exhume the remains of the victims for ‘identification’.
President Luiz Inacio de Silva has announced three days of mourning.
Vopass Airlines said it was cooperating with authorities to “determine the cause of the accident” while providing full support to the families of those killed in Flight 2283.
“The twin-engine aircraft took off without any flight restrictions and all systems were operational,” the company said.
On the other hand, Brazil’s CNIPA Aviation Accident Agency has started an investigation.
ATR, a subsidiary of Franco-Italian aircraft maker and Airbus, said its experts were working to assist investigators.
A terrible accident
Martins Barbosa, a 49-year-old truck driver, was busy with his work when he learned about the plane crash, which happened 150 meters from his home.
He told AFP: ‘I thought it might have fallen on my house and my son was inside.’ He added that I was very disappointed before knowing the well-being of my family.
Nathalie Sicari, who lives near the crash site, told CNN Brazil that the crash was “terrible.”
She said: ‘I was eating lunch when I heard a very loud noise very close.’ He described the sound as drone-like but ‘much louder’.
“I went to the balcony and saw that the plane was spinning. Within seconds I realized that this was not a normal movement for an aircraft.’
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Sikari was unhurt but had to evacuate his home, which was filled with black smoke from the crash.
Another eyewitness, Ricardo Rodriguez, told local Band News: ‘I arrived at the scene and saw that there were many bodies on the ground.’
Firefighters, military police and state civil defense were dispatched to the scene.
The military police told local media that there were no casualties on the ground in the accident and the fire caused by the accident has been brought under control.
The plane’s “black box has already been found and appears to have been secured,” Sao Paulo state security official Guilherme Daret told reporters at the scene.
According to the website planespotters.net, the crashed plane recorded its first flight in April 2010.
Aviation safety has improved dramatically in recent decades, with passenger aircraft accidents becoming less frequent worldwide, but still relatively high in developing countries.
Excluding Friday’s crash, CNIPA figures show Brazil has recorded 108 plane crashes so far this year, killing 49 people. In the last 10 years, 746 people have been killed in 1665 accidents in the country.
In January 2023, another Yeti Airlines ATR 72 crashed in Nepal, killing all 72 people on board.
Nepali authorities attributed the incident to pilot error.
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