Officials in Valinhos have confirmed that there were no survivors in the plane crash that occurred earlier today.
The aircraft crashed into a residential area, damaging only one home in a local complex. Fortunately, no residents were injured.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had also said earlier that it appears that all passengers are presumed dead.
“I must be the bearer of very bad news, and I wanted all to stand up so we can take one minute of silence because a plane just fell in the town of Vinhedos in Sao Paulo with 58 passengers and four crew members, and it seems that all of them passed,” he said at an event shortly after the crash.
“So I’d like to ask for a minute of silence for the victims.”
The Brazilian airport authority has yet to provide official details regarding the incident, but the news outlet Globo has released images showing the flaming wreckage of the plane in São Paulo state.
The Associated Press reported that a video, obtained from a bystander and verified by the outlet, showed at least two bodies amidst the plane’s ruins.
Voepass, the airline involved, has not yet offered any information on the cause of the accident.
“It just dropped out of the sky, fell on top of a house; luckily, there was nobody in the house,” Al Jazeera correspondent Monica Yanakiew reported from Rio de Janeiro. “But by the images we’ve been seeing, everyone is really likely to be dead, because the plane was totally destroyed.”
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