(9 Aug 2024)
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Vinhedo, Brazil – 9 August 2024
1. Smoke rising from the site where a passenger airplane crashed
2. Emergency vehicles arriving on scene
3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Felipe Magalhães, local resident:
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"When the plane straightened out, it went down, and I thought something had happened, it had run out of gas or something, so I ran out of the house and saw it falling on a couple’s roof."
4. Smoke rising
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Ana Lucia, local resident:
"I thought it was going to fall in our yard. It was scary, but thank God there were no victims among the locals."
6. Neighbors watching
7. Helicopter taking off
STORYLINE:
A passenger plane with 61 people aboard crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all aboard, the airline said.
The airline earlier had reported that 62 people were aboard the flight that crashed in Vinhedo, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo, but later updated the number to 61.
“The company regrets to inform that all 61 people on board flight 2283 died at the site," VOEPASS said in a statement. "At this time, VOEPASS is prioritizing provision of unrestricted assistance to the victims’ families and effectively collaborating with authorities to determine the causes of the accident.”
Residents described to the Associated Press the moment the plane fell to the ground.
"I thought it was going to fall in our yard. It was scary, but thank God there were no victims among the locals," said resident Ana Lucia.
The statement didn’t say what caused the accident.
Firefighters, military police and the civil defense authority dispatched teams to the crash site in Vinhedo.
Authorities sealed off the entrance to the residential area where the plane went down, as journalists waited outside for updates.
Brazilian television network GloboNews showed aerial footage of an area on fire with smoke coming out of an obliterated plane fuselage.
Separate footage on GloboNews earlier showed the plane drifting downward vertically, spiraling as it fell.
The plane departed from Cascavel, in the state of Parana.
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