Voepass plane with 61 people on board crashes in Brazil
A Voepass plane with 61 people on board crashed Friday in a residential area of the Brazilian municipality of Vinhedo, in the state of São Paulo, the airline said.
The aircraft carried 57 passengers and four crew members.
“There is still no confirmation of how the accident occurred or the current status of the people on board,” the airline said in a statement.
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Sources from São Paulo airport and the airline explained that it was an ATR-72-500 model aircraft and that it was traveling from the city of Cascavel to Guarulhos.
In a statement, authorities in the city of Vinhedo indicated that no one on board the plane survived.
“There were no deaths in the residential area where the plane crashed. The death toll remains at 61 people who were on board the plane,” the city’s communications director, Ana Candida Briski, told CNN.
Videos posted on social networks show the aircraft circling over itself before collapsing.
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