A plane has crashed in Brazil with 62 people on board. Here’s what we know – National
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The Associated Press
Posted August 9, 2024 2:21 pm
Updated August 9, 2024 2:23 pm
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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, 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 in the city of Vinhedo with 58 passengers and 4 crew members aboard. The statement didn’t say what caused the accident.
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. He said that it appeared that all passengers and crew aboard had died, without elaborating as to how that information had been obtained.
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Firefighters, military police and the civil defense authority dispatched teams to the crash site in Vinhedo.
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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.
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O governador de São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, que estava em reunião com governadores no Espírito Santo, está a caminho de Vinhedo (SP), onde um avião com 62 pessoas a bordo caiu. Em conversa com @AndreiaSadi, Tarcísio informou que irá montar um gabinete de crise conjunto com o… pic.twitter.com/Qe9eEr4O1M
— GloboNews (@GloboNews) August 9, 2024
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