A plane crashed in a Brazil neighborhood, with all aboard feared dead

Brazilian police guarding the gated community where a plane crashed on Friday.

A passenger plane carrying 62 people has crashed in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, the airline Voepass confirmed in a statement on its website.

The plane, which was headed toward São Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport from Cascavel, had 58 passengers and four crew members on board when it fell from the sky in the town of Vinhedo on Friday, the airline wrote on its website.

The flight path of the Voepass plane that crashed in Vinhedo, Brazil on Friday. 

The airline did not provide details on what may have caused the crash.

Brazilian TV station GloboNews reported that there were no survivors of the crash. And Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told the crowd at an event in southern Brazil that it looked as though everyone aboard died, according to the Associated Press.

GloboNews shared unverified videos on X showing a plane spinning around as it falls from the sky. Videos from the outlet also show reporters at the scene of a fiery wreck surrounded by local police officers, as well as aerial footage of what appears to be the plane’s wreckage in a residential backyard.

The plane crashed near a residence with people inside, but no one on the ground was hurt, according to GloboNews.

“I thought it was going to fall in our yard,” a resident and witness told the Associated Press near the crash site. “It was scary, but thank God there were no victims among the locals. It seems that the 62 people inside the plane were the real victims, though.”

The governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, said on X that firefighters, police, civil defense, and medical teams are working at the site to retrieve victims.

“My condolences to all the victims and those affected by this tragedy,” de Freitas wrote on X.

The company that manufactures the plane involved in the crash, French-Italian ATR, told the AP that its specialists are “fully engaged to support both the investigation and the customer.” Since the 1990s, 470 people have died in crashes on various ATR-72 model planes, the AP reported, citing data from the Aviation Safety Network.

Friday’s crash is the deadliest plane incident in Brazil since 2007, when nearly 200 people died on a TAM aircraft, according to Estadão.