62 passengers aboard a plane crash in Brazil – Hollywood Life.
During a briefing on Friday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sadly announced, “I have to share some really unfortunate news,” and requested a minute of silence to honor the 58 passengers and four crew members on board the plane that crashed in Vinhedo, a city northwest of São Paulo.
The cause of the crash remains unknown, but he mentioned, “It seems like everyone has perished.”
BREAKING: Voepass Flight 2283, a large passenger plane, crashes in Vinhedo, Brazil pic.twitter.com/wmpJLVYbB3
— BNO News (@BNONews) August 9, 2024
Voepass, a regional airline based in São Paulo state, confirmed in a social media post that its plane, flight 2283, had crashed. The flight had departed from Cascavel, a Brazilian city near the southern border with Paraguay and Argentina, and was en route to Guarulhos, just outside São Paulo, as stated by Voepass in their post.
We are following reports of a crash of a VoePass ATR 72 near São Paulo, Brazil. We are currently processing granular data from this flight. pic.twitter.com/ozBx2sL5lZ
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) August 9, 2024
FlightAware data showed that the twin-engine turboprop ATR-72 aircraft took off at 11:50 a.m. local time and was scheduled to land just before 2 p.m.
A woman in Vinhedo, Brazil, mentioned she heard the plane before she witnessed the crash.
“I heard a very loud noise, very close to me. I thought it was a drone. I looked up to the sky and saw the plane spinning,” Nathalie Cicari told CNN.
#WATCH : More visuals from the crash site of a Voepass Linhas Aéreas ATR 72-500 plane.#Vinhedo #Brazil #PlaneCrash #Crash #Cascavel #Guarulhos #saopaulo #VoepassAirlines pic.twitter.com/B98fcnZF0R
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Another witness, Felipe Magalhaes, shared with Reuters that he heard the plane as it was descending. He described in Portuguese how he saw it crash from his window and rushed to the scene to help those in the vicinity.
“The way it fell—I ran out of the house and went to see where it had fallen and saw it had crashed into the house of a couple of elderly people. We also knew them from church. Terrified and not knowing what to do, I jumped over the wall,” Magalhaes said.
A man who missed the flight told Brazilian news outlet Globo that at least 10 people were waiting at the wrong gate and missed the flight before it took off.
“They said to me, ‘Mister, you’re not getting on this plane because we’re already past the boarding limit.’ I even pressured them a little. ‘Mister, put me on this plane, I have to go,’ then he said, ‘There’s no way, what I can do is rebook your ticket,’” the unnamed man said.