Civil defence groups are working to get well our bodies of 58 passengers, 4 crew killed in fiery crash in Sao Paulo state.
Authorities in Brazil are working to find out what triggered a plane to crash in Sao Paulo state, killing all 62 folks on board in one of many worst aviation incidents within the South American nation’s historical past.
Civil defence groups labored by means of the evening into Saturday to get well the stays of passengers and crew members killed when the Voepass airline flight crashed in a fiery inferno close to town of Vinhedo.
At the very least 21 our bodies had been recovered from the location by Saturday morning, with two victims recognized on web site, the Sao Paulo state authorities stated. All of the our bodies are being moved to Sao Paulo’s police morgue.
Native airline Voepass’s airplane, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was headed for Sao Paulo’s worldwide airport with 58 passengers and 4 crew members when it went down on Friday.
The airline had revised its preliminary loss of life toll all the way down to 61, however on Saturday introduced it again as much as 62 after discovering a passenger who was not on the unique listing of names.
“The particular person is a passenger who was not on the listing of names launched final evening as a result of, for technical causes, his identification had not been confirmed,” Al Jazeera’s Monica Yanakiew reported from Sao Paulo.
The place of the our bodies on the crashed airplane, bodily traits, paperwork and belongings such cell phones have been getting used to help in identification, firefighter Maycon Cristo stated on the crash web site on Saturday.
“As soon as all this proof has been collected, we are going to take away the victims from the wreckage and place them within the automobile to be transported to Sao Paulo,” he added.
Kinfolk of the victims have additionally travelled to Sao Paulo to assist present genetic materials for DNA identification of physique elements and different data on the lifeless, stated Henguel Pereira, coordinator of the Sao Paulo state authorities’s civil defence company.
As restoration efforts proceed, questions swirl round the reason for the crash.
A report on Friday from Brazilian tv community Globo’s meteorological centre stated it “confirmed the potential of the formation of ice within the area of Vinhedo”, and native media cited specialists pointing to icing as a possible trigger.
Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Henrique Baldi of the Brazilian air pressure’s centre for the investigation and prevention of air accidents advised reporters in a Friday information convention that it was nonetheless too early to verify whether or not ice triggered the crash.
The airplane is “licensed in a number of international locations to fly in extreme icing circumstances, together with in international locations, not like ours, the place the affect of ice is extra important”, stated Baldi, who heads the centre’s investigation division.
Brazilian aviation skilled Lito Sousa additionally cautioned that meteorological circumstances alone may not be sufficient to elucidate why the airplane fell within the method it did.
“Analysing an air crash simply with photographs can result in incorrect conclusions concerning the causes,” Sousa advised The Related Press by cellphone.
“However we are able to see a airplane with lack of assist, no horizontal velocity. On this flat spin situation, there’s no option to reclaim management of the airplane.”
Chatting with reporters on Friday in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo Public Safety Secretary Guilherme Derrite stated the airplane’s black field had been recovered, apparently in a preserved state.
In the meantime, French-Italian airplane producer ATR stated in a press release that it had been knowledgeable that the crash concerned its ATR 72-500 mannequin, and that firm specialists are “totally engaged to assist each the investigation and the client”.
The ATR 72 is usually used on shorter flights. The planes are constructed by a three way partnership of Airbus in France and Italy’s Leonardo S.p.A.
Friday’s crash is Brazil’s deadliest since 199 folks have been killed in 2007 on a flight operated by TAM, which later joined LAN to change into what’s now LATAM Airways.
Additionally it is the world’s deadliest crash since January 2023, when 72 people were killed when a Yeti Airways airplane in Nepal stalled and crashed whereas making its touchdown method. That airplane additionally was an ATR 72, and the ultimate report blamed pilot error.