Brazilian authorities recover bodies, probe cause of deadly plane crash
Al Jazeera
Civil defence teams are working to recover bodies of 58 passengers, four crew killed in fiery crash in Sao Paulo state.
Authorities in Brazil are working to determine what caused a plane to crash in Sao Paulo state, killing all 62 people on board in one of the worst aviation incidents in the South American country’s history.
Civil defence teams worked through the night into Saturday to recover the remains of passengers and crew members killed when the Voepass airline flight crashed in a fiery inferno near the city of Vinhedo.
At least 21 bodies had been recovered from the site by Saturday morning, with two victims identified on site, the Sao Paulo state government said. All the bodies are being moved to Sao Paulo’s police morgue.
Local airline Voepass’s plane, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport with 58 passengers and four crew members when it went down on Friday.
The airline had revised its initial death toll down to 61, but on Saturday brought it back up to 62 after finding a passenger who was not on the original list of names.
