MADRID, (EUROPA PRESS). – Brazilian emergency services recovered the lifeless bodies of the 62 people who were travelling on board the passenger plane that crashed the day before in Vinhedo, in the state of Sao Paulo, in an accident that – as local authorities have already announced – has left no survivors.
Of the total number of victims, 34 are men and the remaining 28 are women, the G1 news portal reported. However, although the bodies have already been transferred to the Sao Paulo Police morgue for identification, only the identity of the pilot and co-pilot has been confirmed so far.
On Friday, the airline Voepass had said that the crashed aircraft was carrying 57 passengers and four crew members, but on Saturday the company itself reported the presence of another passenger missing from the same flight, thus raising the death toll to 62.
The removal of the bodies ended at around 6:30 p.m. (local time) on Saturday and, according to the same media, all of them have been transferred to the central unit of the Legal Medical Institute (IML) in Sao Paulo for identification and subsequent delivery to their relatives.
A plane carrying 62 people crashed in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo on Friday, with no survivors and no hypothesis yet being put forward.
The plane was flying from Cascavel airport in the state of Paraná to Guarulhos airport in Sao Paulo when it crashed at around 1:25 p.m. local time in the town of Vinhedo, near a residential area.
The company, Voepass Linhas Aéreas, said it had “no confirmation of how the accident occurred,” although it clarified that the aircraft — manufactured in 2010 — had all the necessary permits to operate, according to the G1 website.
Friday’s accident was the most fatal in Brazil since a TAM plane went off the runway at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo in 2007. At that time, 199 people died.
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2024-08-13 13:56:56
