Passenger aircraft crashes in Brazil, killing all 61 folks on board | NESMAG

A aircraft operated by the Brazilian airline VoePass crashed within the nation’s Sao Paulo state on Friday, killing all 61 folks on board, the corporate mentioned Friday.

The plane concerned within the fiery wreck in a residential space within the metropolis of Vinhedo was carrying 57 passengers and 4 crew, in keeping with The Associated Press. The aircraft departed from Cascavel, Brazil, within the state of Parana.

“The company regrets to inform that all 61 people on board flight 2283 died locally,” the airline mentioned in a press release. 

Firefighters, navy police and the civil protection authority all dispatched groups to the crash web site. 

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The aircraft crashed within the Brazilian metropolis of Vinhedo, within the state of Sao Paulo.  (Fox News)

It was not clear how many individuals had been injured or killed. News Digital has reached out to the airline. 

Brazilian TV community GloboNews confirmed aerial footage of an space on fireplace with smoke popping out of an obliterated aircraft fuselage. Additional footage confirmed the aircraft drifting downward vertically, spiraling because it fell.

“I thought it was going to fall in our yard,” a resident and witness who gave her identify solely as Ana Lucia instructed reporters close to the crash web 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.”

This body seize from video reveals fireplace coming from a aircraft that crashed by a house in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Friday. (Felipe Magalhaes Filho by way of AP)

The Capela neighborhood the place the aircraft crashed sits removed from the middle of town that is dwelling to 77,000 residents.

At an occasion in southern Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva requested the gang to face and observe a minute of silence as he shared the information. 

VoePass workers on the Guarulhos airport instructed the Associated Press that the corporate was notifying victims’ members of the family and supporting them at a personal room within the airport. They did not specify what number of victims.

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He mentioned that it appeared that each one passengers and crew aboard had died, with out elaborating as to how that info had been obtained.

Aviation knowledgeable and former pilot Arthur Rosenberg mentioned video of the aircraft seems to point out the airliner stalling in midair. 

“A stall is when the plane is not moving through the air fast enough, forward motion, to be able to maintain lift to stay in the air,” he instructed Fox News Channel’s “The Story.” “The sound tells me there was something wrong with one or both engines.”

The radar knowledge reveals a “rapid descent,” which might have been attributed to an engine failure or another malfunction, he mentioned. 

An airliner crashed in Brazil on Friday. 

“It looked like it dropped 17,000 feet in about two minutes,” Rosenberg mentioned. 

The airliner is an ATR 72-500 twin-engine turboprop, in keeping with FlightRadar24, a flight monitoring web site, although VOEPASS did not instantly verify that. The plane is used for shorter flights. 

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In a press release, the aircraft’s producer, French-Italian ATR, mentioned firm specialists are “fully engaged to support both the investigation and the customer.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.