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Americas|Passenger Plane Crashes in Brazil, Killing 61 Onboard
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/world/americas/brazil-plane-crash.html
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The Brazilian authorities said no one survived the crash, outside São Paulo on Friday afternoon. The airline, VoePass, said the cause was unknown.
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By Jack NicasPaulo Motoryn and Niraj Chokshi
Jack Nicas reported from Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Motoryn from Brasília and Niraj Chokshi from New York.
Aug. 9, 2024Updated 7:59 p.m. ET
Above the small city of Vinhedo, Brazil, on Friday, a passenger plane was falling from the sky. Residents began filming.
Those videos show the horrifying moment when an 89-foot-long plane, carrying 61 people and slowly spinning in circles, plummeted to earth. A moment after the plane disappears from view near a gated community, an enormous black plume of smoke rises from the spot.
One video then shows a house on fire, a swimming pool full of debris and a group of men peering over a scene of carnage in a yard: a shredded fuselage, twisted metal and, several yards in front of the cockpit, a body.
VoePass Flight 2283 crashed Friday toward the end of a scheduled two-hour flight from Cascavel, Brazil, to São Paulo. VoePass, a small Brazilian airline, said all 57 passengers and four crew members died in the accident.
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The airline and Brazilian officials said they did not know why the plane had crashed.
The plane, an ATR 72, had all systems operating correctly when it took off, the airline said. The pilots did not signal any emergency, officials said. The aircraft, a twin-engine turboprop plane, was built in 2010 and was in compliance with Brazilian regulations, they added.
