A plane carrying 62 people that was being operated by the Brazilian airline VoePass crashed in the country’s Sao Paulo state on Friday, reports say.
The aircraft involved in the fiery wreck in a residential area in the city of Vinhedo was carrying 58 passengers and four crew, according to The Associated Press. The plane departed from Cascavel, in the state of Parana.
Firefighters, military police and the civil defense authority all dispatched teams to the crash site.
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The plane crashed in the Brazilian city of city of Vinhedo, in the state of Sao Paulo. (Fox News)
It was not clear how many people were injured or killed. Fox News Digital has reached out to the airline.
Brazilian television network GloboNews showed aerial footage of an area on fire with smoke coming out of an obliterated plane fuselage. Additional footage showed the plane drifting downward vertically, spiraling as it fell.
This frame grab from video shows fire coming from a plane that crashed by a home in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Friday. (Felipe Magalhaes Filho via AP)
The Capela neighborhood where the plane crashed sits far from the center of the city that’s home to 77,000 residents.
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.
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He said that it appeared that all passengers and crew aboard had died, without elaborating as to how that information had been obtained.
Aviation expert and former pilot Arthur Rosenberg said video of the plane appears to show the airliner stalling in midair.
An airliner crashed in Brazil on Friday.
“A stall is when the plane is not moving through the air fast enough, forward motion, to be able to maintain lift to stay in the air,” he told “The Story.” “The sound tells me there was something wrong with one or both engines.”
The radar data shows a “rapid descent,” which could have been attributed to an engine failure or some other malfunction, he said.
“It looked like it dropped 17,000 feet in about two minutes,” Rosenberg said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
