At least 61 people have been killed in a plane crash in the São Paulo state of Brazil, media reports said on Saturday.
The twin-engine turboprop, an ATR 72-500, was en route from Cascavel in Paraná to Guarulhos airport in São Paulo city when it crashed in the town of Vinhedo, the Voepass airline said.
“The company regrets to inform that all 61 people on board flight 2283 died at the scene,” Voepass said in a statement, revising the death toll down from an initial assessment of 62 dead.
There were 57 passengers and four crew members on board, according to the company.
Footage circulating on social media shows the plane descending vertically and spiraling as it fell.
Social media videos of the crash showed the plane spiraling out of the sky before hitting the ground as people in the neighborhood shouted in fear.
Another video showed the wreckage of the plane in flames on the ground. No one on the ground was hurt, city officials told CNN.
Authorities have recovered the flight recorders, and ATR, the French-Italian plane manufacturer, has pledged to cooperate with the investigation.
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