A plane operated by the Brazilian airline VoePass has crashed in the country's Sao Paulo state on Friday, reports say.
A plane carrying 62 people that was being operated by the Brazilian airline VoePass crashed in the country's Sao Paulo state on Friday, reports say. The aircraft involved in the fiery wreck in a residential area in the city of Vinhedo was carrying 58 passengers and four crew, according to The Associated Press. The plane departed from Cascavel, in the state of Parana. Firefighters, military police and the civil defense authority all dispatched teams to the crash site.
The Capela neighborhood where the plane crashed sits far from the center of the city that's home to 77,000 residents. 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. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP 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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