David Bridges
At a briefing Friday afternoon, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mentioned, “I’ve to be the bearer of actually unhealthy information,” and referred to as for a minute of silence to honor the 58 passengers and 4 crew members aboard the aircraft that crashed in Vinhedo, a metropolis northwest of São Paulo.
The reason for the crash is unknown, he mentioned, however added, “It seems all have died.”
BREAKING: Voepass Flight 2283, a big passenger aircraft, crashes in Vinhedo, Brazil pic.twitter.com/wmpJLVYbB3
— BNO Information (@BNONews) August 9, 2024
In a social media publish, Voepass, a regional airline primarily based in São Paulo state, confirmed that its aircraft, flight 2283, had crashed. The aircraft departed from Cascavel, a Brazilian metropolis close to the nation’s southern border with Paraguay and Argentina, and was headed to Guarulhos, simply exterior São Paulo, Voepass mentioned in its publish.
We’re following experiences of a crash of a VoePass ATR 72 close to São Paulo, Brazil. We’re at the moment processing granular information from this flight. https://t.co/1MwrzhJ0gU pic.twitter.com/ozBx2sL5lZ
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) August 9, 2024
FlightAware information indicated the aircraft, a twin-engine turboprop ATR-72, departed at 11:50 a.m. native time and was scheduled to land simply earlier than 2 p.m.
One girl in Vinhedo, Brazil, mentioned she heard the aircraft earlier than she noticed it.
“I heard a really loud noise, very near me. I believed it was a drone. I seemed as much as the sky and noticed the aircraft spinning,” Nathalie Cicari instructed CNN.
#WATCH : Extra visuals from the crash web site of a Voepass Linhas Aéreas ATR 72-500 aircraft.#Vinhedo #Brazil #PlaneCrash #Crash #Cascavel #Guarulhos #saopaulo #VoepassAirlines pic.twitter.com/B98fcnZF0R
— upuknews (@upuknews1) August 9, 2024
One other eyewitness, Felipe Magalhaes, instructed Reuters that he heard the aircraft because it was falling. Talking in Portuguese, he mentioned he seemed out of his window simply because it crashed. He rushed to the wreckage, not simply to see however to try to assist individuals within the neighborhood.
“The way in which it fell—I ran out of the home and went to see the place it had fallen and noticed it had crashed into the home of a few aged individuals. We additionally knew them from church. Terrified and never understanding what to do, I jumped over the wall,” Magalhaes mentioned.
A person who missed the flight instructed Brazilian information outlet Globo that a minimum of 10 individuals have been ready on the fallacious gate and missed the flight earlier than it took off.
“They mentioned to me, ‘Mister, you’re not getting on this aircraft as a result of we’re already previous the boarding restrict.’ I even pressured them a little bit. ‘Mister, put me on this aircraft, I’ve to go,’ then he mentioned, ‘There’s no method, what I can do is rebook your ticket,’” the unnamed man mentioned.
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