Sebastian Locandio
VINEDO, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities had been engaged on Saturday to get well the stays of passengers from a aircraft that crashed within the city of Vignedo close to Sao Paulo on Friday, killing all 62 individuals on board.
The Sao Paulo state authorities stated no less than 31 our bodies had been discovered as of 1pm native time on Saturday (1600 GMT). Vinedo Mayor Dario Pacheco stated the our bodies of the pilot and co-pilot had been recognized.
All our bodies had been moved to the St. Paul police morgue.
Among the many useless had been a Venezuelan man and a Portuguese lady, state civil safety official Roberto Farina stated, including that the native consulate had been contacted.
On Friday, regional airline Voepass stated the aircraft was carrying 57 passengers and 4 crew members, however on Saturday it confirmed there was one other unaccounted passenger on board, placing the casualty toll at 62.
Firefighter Mecon Christo stated on the scene that authorities had been utilizing objects similar to seat assignments, bodily traits, paperwork and cellphones to establish the victims.
“As soon as all this proof is collected, we are going to take away the victims from the wreckage and put them into automobiles for transport to Sao Paulo,” he stated.
Kinfolk of the victims have been delivered to São Paulo to offer DNA samples to assist establish the stays, state civil safety coordinator Henguel Pereira stated.
Marcelo Moreno, head of Brazil’s aviation accident investigation heart Cenipa, informed a information convention in Vinedo that the aircraft’s so-called “black field” containing recordings and flight information was being analyzed.
The plane, an ATR-72 turboprop, was flying from Cascavel, Paraná, to São Paulo when it departed about 1:30 pm (1630 GMT) about 80 kilometers (50 km) northwest of São Paulo. Vignedo crashed at 1.5 miles). Though it crashed right into a residential space, nobody on the bottom was injured.
The Brazilian Air Power stated in a press release that the aircraft flew usually till 1:21 p.m., when it stopped responding to calls and radar contact was misplaced at 1:22 p.m.
The Air Power added that the pilot didn’t report an emergency or adversarial climate circumstances.
Franco-Italian ATR, collectively owned by Airbus and Leonardo, is a serious producer of regional turboprop plane with 40 to 70 seats. ATR informed Reuters on Friday that its consultants had been “totally engaged” within the accident investigation.
