A plane with 62 people aboard crashed in a fiery wreck in a residential area of a city in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday (August 9, 2024), the airline said, but it was not immediately clear how many people were injured or killed.
The airline VoePass confirmed in a statement that a plane headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport Guarulhos crashed with 58 passengers and 4 crew members aboard. The statement didn’t say what caused the accident.
Brazilian television network GloboNews showed footage of a large area on fire and smoke coming out of an apparent plane fuselage in a residential area full of houses. Additional footage on GloboNews showed a plane drifting downward vertically, spiraling as it fell.
All 62 people aboard a plane that crashed were killed, the mayor’s office in Valinhos, a city near the scene of the accident, announced.
“There were no survivors,” the city government — which was involved in the rescue and recovery operation in the neighboring town of Vinhedo — said in an email sent to AFP.
At an event in southern Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asked the crowd to stand and observe a minute of silence as he shared the news.
(with inputs from AP and AFP)
