A passenger plane with 62 people on board crashed in a residential area of one of the cities in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo in Friday.
AP and Reuters reported this, citing airline representatives.
Plane crash in Sao Paulo
Voepass airline confirmed in a statement that the plane, heading to Sao Paulo's Guarulhos International Airport, crashed in the city of Vinhedo with 58 passengers and 4 crew members on board. The statement did not say what caused the accident.
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At an event in southern Brazil, the country's president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva asked those gathered to stand and observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims. He said it appeared all passengers and crew were killed, without saying how he had obtained that information.
Firefighters, military police and civil defence sent teams to the crash site in Vinhedo. Authorities cordoned off the entrance to the residential area where the plane went down.
Brazilian television network GloboNews showed aerial footage showing the area engulfed in flames and smoke billowing from the plane's destroyed fuselage. Additional footage shown earlier by GloboNews showed the plane falling vertically and spiraling.
All 62 people on board were killed, Reuters later reported.
City officials in Valinhos, near Vinhedo where the crash occurred, said there were no casualties. Only one home in the local complex was damaged, but no one was hurt.
According to FlightRadar24, the plane was registered as an ATR 72-500 turboprop. ATR is jointly owned by Airbus and Italian aerospace group Leonardo.
