EPAAt the very least 21 our bodies have been recovered from the positioning of a aircraft crash within the Brazilian state of São Paulo which killed everybody on board.
Groups have been working via the night time to seek out victims of the catastrophe after a twin-engine turboprop operated by airline Voepass got here down within the city of Vinhedo.
The variety of casualties was revised up on Saturday to 62.
Voepass mentioned earlier that the ATR 72-500 was carrying 57 passengers and 4 crew between Cascavel within the southern state of Paraná to Guarulhos airport in São Paulo metropolis. But it surely later confirmed there was one other unaccounted-for passenger on the flight.
Footage circulating on social media confirmed a aircraft descending vertically, spiralling because it falls.
The plane crashed in a residential space, however no-one on the bottom was injured. Officers mentioned just one residence in an area condominium advanced was broken.
Capt Maycon Cristo, a spokesman for the fireplace division which helps with the restoration, mentioned that thus far, two individuals had been recognized from proof recovered on the scene.
He mentioned that groups had been counting on various elements to assist determine passengers.
These embody paperwork and the place of our bodies in relation to seating, in addition to cellphones recovered from a number of the victims.
Capt Cristo mentioned the casualties had been being moved to a police morgue in São Paulo.
Lt Ramatuel Silvino of the São Paulo civil defence service mentioned relations could be staying in a resort within the metropolis.
The aircraft crash is Brazil’s worst since 2007, when a TAM Express plane crashed and burst into flames at São Paulo’s Congonhas airport, killing 199 individuals.
At this stage, it isn’t recognized what brought on the ATR 72-500 to crash.
Authorities mentioned the flight recorders had been retrieved.
ATR, the French-Italian aircraft maker, mentioned it will co-operate with the investigation.
In response to the monitoring web site Flightradar24, flight 2283 had taken off from Cascavel at 11:56 native time (14:56 GMT) on Friday and was because of arrive at 13:40.
The final sign acquired from the plane was about 20 minutes earlier than it was scheduled to land.
Brazil’s civil aviation company mentioned the aircraft, which was inbuilt 2010, had been “in good working situation, with legitimate registration and airworthiness certificates”.
The 4 crew members on board on the time of the accident had been all duly licensed and had legitimate {qualifications}, it added.
The Uopeccan Most cancers Hospital in Cascavel advised BBC Brasil that two of its trainee docs had been among the many passengers who died.
The second the passenger aircraft crashed was witnessed by native residents, whereas others described injury to their properties.
Luiz Augusto de Oliveira advised Reuters that he, his spouse and their maid had been at residence when “abruptly we noticed the plane exploding within the yard of my home”.
He mentioned: “On the time of the collision, we thought it was a helicopter breaking down, as a result of noise.”
He added that everybody in the home was unhurt and whereas there was some injury, it was “as minimal as attainable, it was materials items. I simply must thank God for the way in which the plane crashed.”
One other resident, Nathalie Cicari, advised CNN Brasil she had been having lunch when she heard a “very loud noise very shut by”, describing it just like the sound of a drone however “a lot louder”.
“I went out on the balcony and noticed the aircraft spinning. Inside seconds, I realised that it was not a traditional motion for a aircraft.”
Brazil’s President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, expressed solidarity with the households and associates of the victims at an occasion the place he was talking.
“I’ve to be the bearer of very unhealthy information and I would really like everybody to face up in order that we are able to have a minute of silence,” he advised his viewers.
He posted on social media that information of the crash was “very unhappy”. “All my solidarity to the households and associates of the victims,” he mentioned.
São Paulo’s state Governor, Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, has declared three days of mourning.
