By Sebastian Rocandio
VINHEDO, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian emergency crews on Saturday recovered the stays of the 62 victims aboard an airliner that plunged to the bottom within the city of Vinhedo, close to Sao Paulo the day earlier than, killing all on board.
The our bodies of many of the victims – 34 males and 28 females – had already been moved to Sao Paulo’s police morgue for identification. The our bodies of the pilot and co-pilot had been recognized earlier within the day, mentioned Dario Pacheco, mayor of Vinhedo.
4 folks with twin citizenship had been among the many victims, three Venezuelans and one Portuguese girl, mentioned regional service Voepass, which operated the plane.
The Venezuelans had been a 4-year-old boy, his mom and grandmother, native outlet Globo Information reported. The boy’s canine was additionally on the flight, which the household was taking to later head to Colombia, in response to the outlet.
On Friday Voepass mentioned the aircraft was carrying 57 passengers and 4 crew, however on Saturday the agency confirmed one other unaccounted-for passenger had been on the flight, placing the variety of casualties at 62.
Authorities are utilizing seat assignments, bodily traits, paperwork and belongings reminiscent of cell telephones to determine the victims, firefighter Maycon Cristo mentioned on the crash web site earlier on Saturday because the our bodies had been being pulled from the wreckage.
Family members of the victims had been dropped at Sao Paulo to supply DNA samples to help in identification of the stays, mentioned state civil protection coordinator Henguel Pereira.
The aircraft’s so-called “black field” containing voice recordings and flight information was present process evaluation, mentioned Marcelo Moreno, the top of Brazilian aviation accident investigation middle Cenipa, at a press convention in Vinhedo.
The aircraft, an ATR-72 turboprop, was certain for Sao Paulo from Cascavel, within the state of Parana, and crashed round 1:30 p.m. (1630 GMT) in Vinhedo, some 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo. Regardless of coming down in a residential space, nobody on the bottom was harm.
The plane was flying usually till 1:21 p.m., when it stopped responding to calls, and radar contact was misplaced at 1:22 p.m., Brazil’s air drive mentioned in an announcement.
Pilots didn’t report an emergency or opposed climate circumstances, the air drive added.
Franco-Italian ATR, collectively owned by Airbus and Leonardo, is the dominant producer of regional turboprop planes seating 40 to 70 folks. ATR instructed Reuters on Friday that its specialists had been “totally engaged” with the investigation into the crash.
