Brazilian television network GloboNews aired footage showing a plane drifting downward vertically, spiraling as it fell.
A plane with 62 people aboard crashed in a fiery wreck in a residential area of a city in Brazil 's Sao Paulo state Friday, the airline said, but it was not immediately clear how many people were injured or killed.The airline VoePass confirmed in a statement that a plane headed for Sao Paulo's international airport in Guarulhos crashed with 58 passengers and 4 crew members aboard. The statement didn't say what caused the accident.
GloboNews showed footage of a large area on fire and smoke coming out of an apparent plane fuselage in a residential area full of houses. Additional footage on GloboNews showed a plane drifting downward vertically, spiraling as it fell.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.
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