Video shared on social media showed what appeared to be the plane plunging down behind a cluster of trees, followed by a large plume of black smoke
An airliner with 62 people on board crashed in Brazil on Friday, and the country’s president said that all passengers are presumed dead.
Airline Voepass said the plane, which had taken off from Cascavel, in the state of Parana, bound for Sao Paulo’s main international airport, crashed in the town of Vinhedo, about 80 km northwest of Sao Paulo. The aircraft was listed by flight tracker FlightRadar24 as an ATR 72-500 turboprop. ATR is jointly owned by Airbus and Italian aerospace group Leonardo.
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