Brazil plane crash latest: Removal of bodies begins after plane crashes near Sao Paulo, killing 62 passengers
Brazilian civil defense teams have recovered at least 26 bodies from the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state on Friday, killing all 62 people on board.
VoePass flight 2283 took off from Cascavel, in the state of Parana, just before noon on its way to the Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport. The ATR-72 lost signal around 1:22 pm local time and crashed in Vinhedo, 50 miles northwest of Sao Paulo city.
Captain Danilo Santos Romano, a pilot with the Voepass airline since 2022, was flying the ATR-72 when it crashed, according to Brazilian outlet Globo TV News.
Other crew members included co-pilot Humberto de Campos Alencar e Silva, 61, and flight attendant Débora Soper Avila, 29, according to the outlet, which viewed the downed flight’s manifest.
Brazilian officials are investigating the cause of the crash, and have recovered the plane’s black box.
Ice may be one factor in the crash, according to VoePass.
Key points
Bodies recovered from crash site as death toll revised to 62
Timeline of VoePass flight 2283: What we know so far
ATR-72: successful regional aircraft that has been involved in a dozen fatal crashes
Ice may have contributed to Brazil plane crash, deadliest incident of 2024
‘Moment of panic’: Witness speaks out
‘I thought I was going to die’: Witness describes seeing ATR-72 crash in Brazil
‘I thought I was going to die’: Witness describes seeing ATR-72 crash in Brazil
Saturday 10 August 2024 20:45 , Josh Marcus
Local residents of the upscale Vinhedo community, outside of São Paolo, were shocked on Friday to see a twin-engine jet careening out of the sky.
“I thought I was going to die,” said Victor de Sousa, 12, told The Wall Street Journal.
“Everyone started screaming when they saw the plane, even the teachers,” he said. “We were all crying, one kid fainted.”
Fragments from the crash littered the suburban neighborhood, including falling into one person’s pool.
Photo captures sprawling wreckage of Brazil plane crash
Saturday 10 August 2024 19:45 , Josh Marcus
Passenger narrowly missed boarding Brazil flight that crashed
Saturday 10 August 2024 18:45 , Josh Marcus
A Brazilian man named Adriano Assis narrowly missed being onboard a regional jet that crashed near Sao Paolo on Friday, killing 62.
The Rio de Janeiro resident told Brazil’s TV Globo he didn’t board the flight in time due to a mixup at the airport.
He believed he booked his flight on a different airline, LATAM, and arrived at the proper gate too late to board, at which point an airline worker rejected his requests to let him on the departing flight.
“He saved my life. He did his job,” Assis told TV Globo.
Crew members and first victims identified in Brazil plane crash
Saturday 10 August 2024 17:45 , Josh Marcus
The names of the pilot, crew members, and some of the passengers aboard a regional flight in Brazil that crash on Friday have been revealed.
Captain Danilo Santos Romano, a pilot with the Voepass airline since 2022, was flying the ATR-72 when it crashed, according to Brazilian outlet Globo TV News.
Other crew members included co-pilot Humberto de Campos Alencar e Silva, 61, and flight attendant Débora Soper Avila, 29, according to the outlet, which viewed the downed flight’s manifest.
There was also a group of doctors onboard, as well as a father and daughter, Rafael Fernando dos Santos, and Liz Ibba Dos Santos, 3.
Ice may have contributed to Brazil plane crash, deadliest incident of 2024
Saturday 10 August 2024 16:45 , Josh Marcus
Friday’s plane crash was the deadliest since January 2023, when 72 people died in Nepal while flying in an ATR-72, the same type of craft that went down in Brazil.
Local media suggested that the “possibility of the formation of ice” may have caused the crash, VOA reports.
Bodies recovered from crash site as death toll revised
Saturday 10 August 2024 15:43 , Josh Marcus
Brazilian civil defense teams working overnight recovered the bodies of at least 21 people from the site of a Friday plane crash near Sao Paulo, which killed all 62 onboard, Reuters reports.
The bodies have been moved to Sao Paolo’s police morgue.
In the midst of the recovery effort, Voepass, the airline whose plane went down, disclosed an additional, unaccounted for passenger was aboard the regional jet, bringing the total death toll up to 58 passengers and four crew.
Watch: Plane spirals out of sky crashing into Brazil hillside
Saturday 10 August 2024 13:00 , Maroosha Muzaffar
ICYMI: Flightradar24 data: minute-by-minute record of VoePass flight 2283
Saturday 10 August 2024 12:00 , Simon Calder
Data from the aircraft-tracking service Flightradar24 provides further information on VoePass flight 2283 before it crashed with the loss of 61 lives.
The aircraft appears to have left the stand at Cascavel airport 16 minutes late, at 11:56am. After a very short taxi it took off two minutes later, reaching its cruising altitude of 17,000 feet at 12:22 pm. It maintained this height for almost an hour.
Flightradar24 relies on crowdsourcing from volunteers who receive data transmitted by aircraft and feed it on to the company’s base in Stockholm. The data may not represent the true picture; during the cruise, Flightradar24 shows the ground speed varying from 94 to 357 knots, an implausible range.
The rapid descent begins at 1:21 pm, reaching a maximum vertical speed of 24,000 feet per minute – about 10 times the normal rate of descent, and corresponding to 275mph. The last data transmission is at 1:22 pm, when the aircraft is show as being at 4,100 feet with a vertical speed of over 12,000 feet per minute, around 140mph.
The data may help investigators from Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) determine the causes of the tragedy.
ICYMI: Airline, manufacturer release statements on crash
Saturday 10 August 2024 11:00 , Katie Hawkinson
The airline VoePass and the plane manufacturer ATR have both issued statements regarding today’s crash.
“There is still no confirmation of how the accident occurred or the current situation of the people on board,” a statement from VoePass reads.
Meanwhile, ATR said it is working to support an investigation into the crash.
“What we can say at this point in time is that ATR has been informed that an accident occurred in Vinhedo, Brazil involving an ATR 72-500,” their statement reads. “Our first thoughts are with all the individuals affected by this event. The ATR specialists are fully engaged to support both the investigation and the customer.”
‘Moment of panic’: witness speaks out
Saturday 10 August 2024 10:00 , Katie Hawkinson
A nearby resident told CNN she witnessed Voepass flight 2283 crash into her neighborhood as she was eating lunch.
She called the crash a “moment of panic” for the city of Vinhedo. She told the outlet she ducked down and began praying as the plane hit near her home.
The plane, carrying 68 people, hit multiple houses as it crashed, Brazil’s Civil Defense told CNN.
Brazil plane crash: 61 people on board aircraft, airline says
Saturday 10 August 2024 09:00 , Maroosha Muzaffar
President says all passengers of VoePass plane presumed dead after footage shows burning wreck in residential area of Sao Paulo state.
Read the detailed story here:
Brazil plane crash: 61 people on board aircraft, airline says
Watch: Plane spirals out of sky crashing into Brazil hillside
Saturday 10 August 2024 08:00 , Katie Hawkinson
Flightradar24 data: minute-by-minute record of VoePass flight 2283
Saturday 10 August 2024 07:00 , Simon Calder
Data from the aircraft-tracking service Flightradar24 provides further information on VoePass flight 2283 before it crashed with the loss of 61 lives.
The aircraft appears to have left the stand at Cascavel airport 16 minutes late, at 11:56am. After a very short taxi it took off two minutes later, reaching its cruising altitude of 17,000 feet at 12:22 pm. It maintained this height for almost an hour.
Flightradar24 relies on crowdsourcing from volunteers who receive data transmitted by aircraft and feed it on to the company’s base in Stockholm. The data may not represent the true picture; during the cruise, Flightradar24 shows the ground speed varying from 94 to 357 knots, an implausible range.
The rapid descent begins at 1:21 pm, reaching a maximum vertical speed of 24,000 feet per minute – about 10 times the normal rate of descent, and corresponding to 275mph. The last data transmission is at 1:22 pm, when the aircraft is show as being at 4,100 feet with a vertical speed of over 12,000 feet per minute, around 140mph.
The data may help investigators from Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) determine the causes of the tragedy.
ATR-72: successful regional aircraft that has been involved in a dozen fatal crashes
Saturday 10 August 2024 06:00 , Simon Calder
The aircraft involved in the fatal crash in Brazil was a 14-year-old ATR-27, registered as PS-VPB.
The ATR 72, built by a Franco-Italian joint venture, has been in service since 1989. It seats up to 78 passenger and is described by its maker as “the most fuel efficient regional aircraft”.
The plane type is popular for domestic operations in India, Brazil, New Zealand, Thailand, Russia and Spain’s Canary Islands.
In the UK, passengers are most likely to fly on an ATR-72 on Aer Lingus Regional services operated by Emerald Airlines, and on domestic flights on Loganair. Like most other aircraft types that have been in operation for decades, the ATR 72 has been involved in a number of tragedies in its 35-year history. The event on 9 August 2024 was the 12th.
The first, in 1994, was a domestic flight with American Eagle from Indianapolis to Chicago. The wings iced up while the aircraft was in a holding pattern. All 68 passengers and crew died.
The next accident was over a decade later, off the coast of Palermo, in 2005 involving a Tuninter aircraft flying from Bari in Italy to Djerba in Tunisia. Engineers had mistakenly fitted a fuel gauge intended for the smaller ATR-42. The plane ran out of fuel and ditched at high speed in the Mediterranean with the loss of 16 lives; 23 people survived.
Subsequent crashes were on domestic flights in Thailand, Cuba, Russia, Laos and Taiwan – where two ATR-72s belonging to TransAsia Airways crashed within eight months, in July 2014 and February 2015.
The final two fatal crashes before the Brazilian tragedy were both domestic flights in nations with poor aviation safety records: Iran in 2018, in which 65 people died, and Nepal in 2023, killing 72 people.
Read more:
Pilots mistakenly cut power leading to Nepal plane crash that killed 72 people
In pictures: Emergency responders rush to scene of crash
Saturday 10 August 2024 05:01 , Katie Hawkinson
Mapped: VoePass flight 2283
Saturday 10 August 2024 04:00 , Katie Hawkinson
‘Moment of panic’: witness speaks out
Saturday 10 August 2024 03:00 , Katie Hawkinson
A nearby resident told CNN she witnessed Voepass flight 2283 crash into her neighborhood as she was eating lunch.
She called the crash a “moment of panic” for the city of Vinhedo. She told the outlet she ducked down and began praying as the plane hit near her home.
The plane, carrying 68 people, hit multiple houses as it crahsed, Brazil’s Civil Defense told CNN.
Brazil plane crash: 61 people on board aircraft, airline says
Saturday 10 August 2024 02:00 , Jane Dalton
A plane with 61 people aboard has crashed in a fiery wreck in a residential area of a city in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, an airline said, and the country’s president said that all passengers were presumed dead.
The airline VoePass confirmed that a plane heading to Sao Paulo’s international airport Guarulhos crashed with 58 passengers and four crew members aboard.
Brazilian television network GloboNews showed footage of a large area on fire and smoke coming out of what appeared to be a plane’s fuselage in an area full of houses.
Read more from The Independent:
Brazil plane crash: 62 people on board aircraft, airline says
ICYMI: Airline, manufacturer release statements on crash
Saturday 10 August 2024 01:00 , Katie Hawkinson
The airline VoePass and the plane manufacturer ATR have both issued statements regarding today’s crash.
“There is still no confirmation of how the accident occurred or the current situation of the people on board,” a statement from VoePass reads.
Meanwhile, ATR said it is working to support an investigation into the crash.
“What we can say at this point in time is that ATR has been informed that an accident occurred in Vinhedo, Brazil involving an ATR 72-500,” their statement reads. “Our first thoughts are with all the individuals affected by this event. The ATR specialists are fully engaged to support both the investigation and the customer.”
Footage: Plane spirals out of sky crashing into Brazil hillside
Saturday 10 August 2024 00:00 , Katie Hawkinson
Mapped: VoePass flight 2283
Friday 9 August 2024 23:00 , Katie Hawkinson
Airline, plane manufacturer speak out
Friday 9 August 2024 22:18 , Katie Hawkinson
The airline VoePass and the plane manufacturer ATR have both issued statements regarding today’s crash.
“There is still no confirmation of how the accident occurred or the current situation of the people on board,” a statement from VoePass reads.
Meanwhile, ATR said it is working to support an investigation into the crash.
“What we can say at this point in time is that ATR has been informed that an accident occurred in Vinhedo, Brazil involving an ATR 72-500,” their statement reads. “Our first thoughts are with all the individuals affected by this event. The ATR specialists are fully engaged to support both the investigation and the customer.”
In pictures: Emergency responders rush to scene of crash
Friday 9 August 2024 21:57 , Katie Hawkinson
VoePass clarifies number of people on board
Friday 9 August 2024 21:51 , Katie Hawkinson
All 61 people on board VoePass flight 2283 died when it crashed near Sao Paulo today, the airline said.
VoePass originally reported that 62 people were on the flight, but later clarified, the Associated Press reports.
Flightradar24 data: minute-by-minute record of VoePass flight 2283
Friday 9 August 2024 21:50 , Simon Calder
Data from the aircraft-tracking service Flightradar24 provides further information on VoePass flight 2283 before it crashed with the loss of 61 lives.
The aircraft appears to have left the stand at Cascavel airport 16 minutes late, at 11:56am. After a very short taxi it took off two minutes later, reaching its cruising altitude of 17,000 feet at 12:22 pm. It maintained this height for almost an hour.
Flightradar24 relies on crowdsourcing from volunteers who receive data transmitted by aircraft and feed it on to the company’s base in Stockholm. The data may not represent the true picture; during the cruise, Flightradar24 shows the ground speed varying from 94 to 357 knots, an implausible range.
The rapid descent begins at 1:21 pm, reaching a maximum vertical speed of 24,000 feet per minute – about 10 times the normal rate of descent, and corresponding to 275mph. The last data transmission is at 1:22 pm, when the aircraft is show as being at 4,100 feet with a vertical speed of over 12,000 feet per minute, around 140mph.
The data may help investigators from Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) determine the causes of the tragedy.
Plane fell thousands of feet in mere seconds
Friday 9 August 2024 21:34 , Katie Hawkinson
VoePass flight 2283 fell 17,000 feet in less than two minutes this afternoon.
The plane was cruising at 17,000 feet until 1:21 pm, less than two hours after it took off, CNN reports. Then, it dropped 250 feet in 10 seconds before climbing 400 feet in eight seconds.
Eight seconds later, it lost roughly 2,000 feet of altitude. Then, in just one minute, the plane descended some 17,000 feet, CNN reports.
Moments later, the plane began to spiral downwards and hit the ground in Vinhedo.
ATR-72: successful regional aircraft that has been involved in a dozen fatal crashes
Friday 9 August 2024 21:13 , Simon Calder
The aircraft involved in the fatal crash in Brazil was a 14-year-old ATR-27, registered as PS-VPB.
The ATR 72, built by a Franco-Italian joint venture, has been in service since 1989. It seats up to 78 passenger and is described by its maker as “the most fuel efficient regional aircraft”.
The plane type is popular for domestic operations in India, Brazil, New Zealand, Thailand, Russia and Spain’s Canary Islands.
In the UK, passengers are most likely to fly on an ATR-72 on Aer Lingus Regional services operated by Emerald Airlines, and on domestic flights on Loganair. Like most other aircraft types that have been in operation for decades, the ATR 72 has been involved in a number of tragedies in its 35-year history. The event on 9 August 2024 was the 12th.
The first, in 1994, was a domestic flight with American Eagle from Indianapolis to Chicago. The wings iced up while the aircraft was in a holding pattern. All 68 passengers and crew died.
The next accident was over a decade later, off the coast of Palermo, in 2005 involving a Tuninter aircraft flying from Bari in Italy to Djerba in Tunisia. Engineers had mistakenly fitted a fuel gauge intended for the smaller ATR-42. The plane ran out of fuel and ditched at high speed in the Mediterranean with the loss of 16 lives; 23 people survived.
Subsequent crashes were on domestic flights in Thailand, Cuba, Russia, Laos and Taiwan – where two ATR-72s belonging to TransAsia Airways crashed within eight months, in July 2014 and February 2015.
The final two fatal crashes before the Brazilian tragedy were both domestic flights in nations with poor aviation safety records: Iran in 2018, in which 65 people died, and Nepal in 2023, killing 72 people.
Read more:
Pilots mistakenly cut power leading to Nepal plane crash that killed 72 people
Timeline of VoePass flight 2283: What we know so far
Friday 9 August 2024 20:48 , Katie Hawkinson
VoePass flight 2283 took off from Cascavel, in the state of Parana, at 11:50 am local time.
The plane was on its way to the Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, where it was expected to arrive just before 2 pm.
The plane was cruising at 17,000 feet until 1:21 pm. Then, it dropped 250 feet in 10 seconds before climbing 400 feet in eight seconds, according to CNN.
Eight seconds later, it lost just under 2,000 feet. Then, in just one minute, the plane descended some 17,000 feet, CNN reports. Moments later, the plane began to spiral downwards and hit the ground in Vinhedo.
The plane sent its last signal at 1:22 pm.
All 62 people on board dead, officials say
Friday 9 August 2024 20:42 , Katie Hawkinson
All 62 people on board VoePass flight 2283 are dead, Brazilian officials announced moments ago.
The plane was carrying 58 passengers and four crew members.
‘Moment of panic’: witness speaks out
Friday 9 August 2024 20:09 , Katie Hawkinson
A nearby resident told CNN she witnessed Voepass flight 2283 crash into her neighborhood as she was eating lunch.
She called the crash a “moment of panic” for the city of Vinhedo. She told the outlet she ducked down and began praying as the plane hit near her home.
The plane, carrying 68 people, hit multiple houses as it crahsed, Brazil’s Civil Defense told CNN.
Plane lost signal just before crash
Friday 9 August 2024 19:57 , Katie Hawkinson
VoePass flight 2283 lost signal at 1:30 pm local time shortly before crashing, flight data reveals.
Footage of the crash shows the plane falling vertically, spiraling as it fell. Video also shows a large area on fire and smoke billowing from the plane after the crash.
The plane hit multiple houses, Brazil’s Civil Defense told CNN.
Brazil plane crash: 62 people on board aircraft, airline says
Friday 9 August 2024 19:53 , Jane Dalton
A plane with 62 people aboard has crashed in a fiery wreck in a residential area of a city in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, an airline said, and the country’s president said that all passengers were presumed dead.
The airline VoePass confirmed that a plane heading to Sao Paulo’s international airport Guarulhos crashed with 58 passengers and four crew members aboard.
Brazilian television network GloboNews showed footage of a large area on fire and smoke coming out of what appeared to be a plane’s fuselage in an area full of houses.
Read more from The Independent:
Brazil plane crash: 62 people on board aircraft, airline says
Brazilian president addresses nation
Friday 9 August 2024 19:47 , Katie Hawkinson
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva addressed his country on Friday, telling residents it “appears” at 62 passengers and crew members aboard VoePass flight 2283.
“I would like everyone to stand up so that we can observe a minute of silence because a plane has just crashed in the city of Vinhedo, in São Paulo, with 58 passengers and 4 crew members and it appears they all died,” Silva said.
Vinhedo is 50 miles northwest of Sao Paulo city.
