Authorities are investigating the cause of the plane crash in São Paulo

(10 Aug 2024)
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Vinhedo, Brazil - 10 August 2024
1. Various aerial images of firefighters and rescue workers working amid debris at plane crash site ++MUTE++
2. Various of firefighters truck entering at gate of residential community where plane crashed
3. Fire Department spokesperson, Maycon Cristo, surrounded by journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Maycon Cristo, Fire Department spokesperson:
"Some parts of the (plane's fuselage) are heavier, and we are using equipment to remove them. We have a winch to move them. And then, as we identify a possible body still in the middle of the aircraft debris, the identification teams enter the scene. So they take photos, collect as much evidence of the victim as possible so that the identification is as accurate as possible."
5. Various of police cars outside gate of residential community where plane crashed
STORYLINE:
Brazilian authorities worked Saturday to piece together what exactly caused the plane crash in Sao Paulo state the previous day that killed all 62 people on board.
Local airline Voepass' plane, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport in Guarulhos with 58 passengers and 4 crew members, when it went down in the city of Vinhedo.
Initially, the company said its plane had 62 passengers, then it revised the number to 61 and early on Saturday it raised the figure once again after it found a passenger named Constantino Thé Maia was not on its original list.
Images recorded by witnesses showed the aircraft in a flat spin and plunging vertically before smashing to the ground inside a gated community, and leaving an obliterated fuselage consumed by fire.
Residents said there were no injuries on the ground.
Rain drizzled down on rescue workers as they recovered the first bodies from the scene in the chill of the Southern Hemisphere’s winter.
Some residents of the condominium silently left to spend the night elsewhere.
It was the world's deadliest airline crash since January 2023, when 72 people died on board a Yeti Airlines plane in Nepal that stalled and crashed while making its landing approach.
That plane also was an ATR 72, and the final report blamed pilot error.
AP video shot by Andre Penner and Maycron Abade
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