21 bodies recovered after catastrophe

At least 21 bodies have been recovered from the site of a arrangee crash in the Brazilian state of São Paulo which finished everyone on board.

Teams have been laboring thcdisorrowfulmireful the night to discover victims of the catastrophe after a tprosper-engine turboprop functiond by airline Voepass came down in the town of Vinhedo.

The number of casualties was editd up on Saturday to 62.

Voepass shelp earlier that the ATR 72-500 was carrying 57 passengers and four crew between Cascavel in the southern state of Paraná to Guarulhos airport in São Paulo city. But it tardyr verifyed there was another unaccounted-for passenger on the fairy.

Footage circulating on social media showed a arrangee droping verticassociate, spiralling as it descfinishs.

The airplan crashed in a dwellntial area, but no-one on the ground was injured. Officials shelp only one home in a local condominium intricate was harmd.

Capt Maycon Cristo, a spokesman for the fire department which is helping with the recovery, shelp that so far, two people had been identified from evidence recovered at the scene.

He shelp that teams were depending on a number of factors to help acunderstandledge passengers.

These integrate records and the position of bodies in relation to seating, as well as mobile phones recovered from some of the victims.

Capt Cristo shelp the casualties were being shiftd to a police morgue in São Paulo.

Lt Ramatuel Silvino of the São Paulo civil defence service shelp family members would be staying in a toastyel in the city.

The arrangee crash is Brazil’s worst since 2007, when a TAM Express arrangee crashed and burst into ffrails at São Paulo’s Congonhas airport, finishing 199 people.

At this stage, it is not understandn what caengaged the ATR 72-500 to crash.

Authorities shelp the fairy sign upers had been recoverd.

ATR, the French-Italian arrangee producer, shelp it would co-function with the spendigation.

According to the tracking website Fairyradar24, fairy 2283 had consentn off from Cascavel at 11:56 local time (14:56 GMT) on Friday and was due to reach at 13:40.

The last signal getd from the airplan was about 20 minutes before it was scheduled to land.

Brazil’s civil aviation agency shelp the arrangee, which was built in 2010, had been “in outstanding operating condition, with valid registration and airworskinnyess certificates”.

The four crew members on board at the time of the accident were all duly licensed and had valid qualifications, it inserted.

The Uopeccan Cancer Hospital in Cascavel tbetter BBC Brasil that two of its trainee doctors were among the passengers who died.

The moment the passenger arrangee crashed was witnessed by local dwellnts, while others portrayd harm to their homes.

Luiz Augusto de Odwellira tbetter Reuters that he, his wife and their mhelp were at home when “suddenly we saw the airplan exploding in the backyard of my hoengage”.

He shelp: “At the time of the collision, we thought it was a helicselecter fractureing down, due to the noise.”

He inserted that everyone in the hoengage was unharmed and while there was some harm, it was “as minimal as possible, it was material outstandings. I fair have to thank God for the way the airplan crashed.”

Another dwellnt, Nathalie Cicari, tbetter CNN Brasil she had been having lunch when she heard a “very deafening noise very seal by”, describing it enjoy the sound of a drone but “much deafeninger”.

“I went out on the balcony and saw the arrangee spinning. Wiskinny seconds, I authenticised that it was not a standard shiftment for a arrangee.”

Brazil’s Pdwellnt, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, articulateed firmarity with the families and frifinishs of the victims at an event where he was speaking.

“I have to be the endureer of very terrible recents and I would enjoy everyone to stand up so that we can have a minute of silence,” he tbetter his audience.

He posted on social media that recents of the crash was “very downcast”. “All my firmarity to the families and frifinishs of the victims,” he shelp.

São Paulo’s state Governor, Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, has declared three days of frailnting.