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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decries ‘unhappy information’ and presents condolences to households of victims.
A aircraft carrying 62 individuals has crashed exterior the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo, killing all onboard, native officers have mentioned.
The Brazilian airline Voepass had confirmed on Friday that the aircraft crashed northeast of town of Sao Paulo.
Officers within the city Valinhos mentioned on Friday there have been no survivors, and just one house in an area residential complicated had been broken within the space the place the aircraft fell however not one of the residents have been harm.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had additionally mentioned earlier that it seems that all passengers are presumed lifeless.
“I have to be the bearer of very unhealthy information, and I needed all to face up so we will take one minute of silence as a result of a aircraft simply fell within the city of Vinhedos in Sao Paulo with 58 passangers and 4 crew members and plainly all of them handed,” he mentioned at an occasion shortly after the crash. “So I’d wish to ask for a minute of silence for the victims.”
The Brazilian airport authority has but to verify particulars of the incident, however the information outlet Globo shared pictures of the flaming wreckage of the aircraft within the state of Sao Paulo. The Related Press reported {that a} video obtained from a bystander and verified by the information outlet confirmed no less than two our bodies amidst the ruins of the aircraft.
The assertion from Voepass doesn’t provide particulars concerning the reason for the accident.
“It was flying at 700 ft, nearly getting there [its destination], when rapidly it plummeted 4,000 ft in little or no time. It simply dropped out of the sky, fell on high of a home, fortunately there was no person in the home,” Al Jazeera correspondent Monica Yanakiew reported from Rio de Janeiro. “However by the photographs we’ve been seeing, everybody is absolutely prone to be lifeless, as a result of the aircraft was completely destroyed.”
Yanakiew added that the incident is being described because the worst of its form in trendy Brazilian historical past.
Firefighters, army police, and the nation’s civil defence authority have despatched employees to the location of the crash, which has been sealed off by authorities.
“The final director of the Federal Police, Andrei Passos, reported that an investigation and forensics staff, with consultants in figuring out catastrophe victims,” Globo reported. The outlet additionally mentioned Sao Paulo Governor Tarcisio de Freitas is touring to the location of the crash.
The air site visitors tracker Flightradar24 mentioned in a social media submit that the plane was a ATR72-500 in-built 2010 and was en path to Sao Paulo from the Cascavel airport within the southern state of Parana.
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