Civil defence groups are working to get better our bodies of 58 passengers, 4 crew killed in fiery crash in Sao Paulo state.
Authorities in Brazil are working to find out what triggered a airplane to crash in Sao Paulo state, killing all 62 folks on board in one of many worst aviation incidents within the South American nation’s historical past.
Civil defence groups labored via the night time into Saturday to get better the stays of passengers and crew members killed when the Voepass airline flight crashed in a fiery inferno close to the town of Vinhedo.
At the least 21 our bodies had been recovered from the location by Saturday morning, with two victims recognized on web site, the Sao Paulo state authorities stated. All of the our bodies are being moved to Sao Paulo’s police morgue.
Native airline Voepass’s airplane, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was headed for Sao Paulo’s worldwide airport with 58 passengers and 4 crew members when it went down on Friday.
The airline had revised its preliminary dying toll all the way down to 61, however on Saturday introduced it again as much as 62 after discovering a passenger who was not on the unique listing of names.
“The individual is a passenger who was not on the listing of names launched final night time as a result of, for technical causes, his identification had not been confirmed,” Al Jazeera’s Monica Yanakiew reported from Sao Paulo.
The place of the our bodies on the crashed airplane, bodily traits, paperwork and belongings such cellphones had been getting used to assist in identification, firefighter Maycon Cristo stated on the crash web site on Saturday.
“As soon as all this proof has been collected, we’ll take away the victims from the wreckage and place them within the automobile to be transported to Sao Paulo,” he added.
Relations of the victims have additionally travelled to Sao Paulo to assist present genetic materials for DNA identification of physique components and different info on the useless, stated Henguel Pereira, coordinator of the Sao Paulo state authorities’s civil defence company.
As restoration efforts proceed, questions swirl round the reason for the crash.
A report on Friday from Brazilian tv community Globo’s meteorological centre stated it “confirmed the opportunity of the formation of ice within the area of Vinhedo”, and native media cited specialists pointing to icing as a possible trigger.
Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Henrique Baldi of the Brazilian air drive’s centre for the investigation and prevention of air accidents informed reporters in a Friday information convention that it was nonetheless too early to substantiate whether or not ice triggered the crash.
The airplane is “licensed in a number of international locations to fly in extreme icing situations, together with in international locations, not like ours, the place the impression of ice is extra vital”, stated Baldi, who heads the centre’s investigation division.
Brazilian aviation professional Lito Sousa additionally cautioned that meteorological situations alone won’t be sufficient to elucidate why the airplane fell within the method it did.
“Analysing an air crash simply with photographs can result in mistaken conclusions in regards to the causes,” Sousa informed The Related Press by telephone.
“However we will see a airplane with lack of help, no horizontal pace. On this flat spin situation, there’s no solution to reclaim management of the airplane.”
Chatting with reporters on Friday in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo Public Safety Secretary Guilherme Derrite stated the airplane’s black field had been recovered, apparently in a preserved state.
In the meantime, French-Italian airplane producer ATR stated in an announcement that it had been knowledgeable that the crash concerned its ATR 72-500 mannequin, and that firm specialists are “totally engaged to help each the investigation and the client”.
The ATR 72 is mostly used on shorter flights. The planes are constructed by a three way partnership of Airbus in France and Italy’s Leonardo S.p.A.
Friday’s crash is Brazil’s deadliest since 199 folks had been killed in 2007 on a flight operated by TAM, which later joined LAN to turn out to be what’s now LATAM Airways.
Additionally it is the world’s deadliest crash since January 2023, when 72 folks had been killed when a Yeti Airways airplane in Nepal stalled and crashed whereas making its touchdown strategy. That airplane additionally was an ATR 72, and the ultimate report blamed pilot error.
