The airline confirmed that the plane “ATR 72-500” with 58 passengers and four crew members was en route to São Paulo International Airport and crashed in the city of Vineda.
At an event in southern Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asked those present to stand and observe a moment of silence as he shared the tragic news. He confirmed that all passengers and crew members appeared to have perished, without elaborating on the source of this information.
There are no survivors of the plane crash in Brazil’s São Paulo state, the city of Vinedau has announced.
A total of 61 people were on board the plane: 57 passengers and four crew members.
Firefighters, military police, and civil defense authorities have dispatched teams to the accident site in Vinedu.
Brazilian television network GloboNews aired footage showing a large area ablaze in a residential neighborhood filled with houses, with smoke billowing from the plane’s fuselage. The network also showed footage of the plane spiraling down vertically.