Brazilian Plane Carrying 62 Crashes, No Survivors

CNN reports:

A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed on the outskirts of São Paulo on Friday, according to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with dramatic footage from the scene showing the plane’s destroyed fuselage in flames on the ground.

Interrupting a speech at a naval event, Lula said it “appears” that everyone on board the flight may have died. It is not clear what caused the twin-engine turboprop plane to crash.

“I would like everyone to stand up so that we can observe a minute of silence because a plane has just crashed in the city of Vinhedo, in São Paulo, with 58 passengers and 4 crew members and it appears they all died,” he said, in a video of his statement shared on X.

NBC News reports:

An area of fire and smoke was captured in footage by Brazil’s TV GloboNews. Other footage from the outlet showed a plane spiraling while falling. Because the plane, an ATR-72, was built in Europe, neither the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board nor the Federal Aviation Administration has jurisdiction over the crash, according to the U.S. agencies. Brazil has a “robust” crash investigation team, the NTSB said.

CNN just reported that while the plane crashed into a residential area, nobody on the ground was killed.