EPAAt least 50 bodies have been recovered from the site of a schedulee crash in the Brazilian state of São Paulo which ended everyone on board.
Teams have been laboring to find and choose victims of the calamity after a tprosper-engine turboprop functiond by airline Voepass came down in the town of Vinhedo.
The number of casualties was alterd up on Saturday to 62.
Voepass shelp earlier that the ATR 72-500 was carrying 57 passengers and four crew between Cascavel in the southern state of Paraná to Guarulhos airport in São Paulo city. But it procrastinateedr verifyed there was another unaccounted-for passenger on the fairy.
Footage circulating on social media showed a schedulee droping verticassociate, spiralling as it drops.
The airoriginate crashed in a dwellntial area, but no-one on the ground was injured. Officials shelp only one home in a local condominium intricate was injured.
Capt Maycon Cristo, a spokesman for the fire department which is helping with the recovery, shelp that so far, two people had been identified from evidence recovered at the scene.
The Mayor of Vinhedo, Dario Pacheco, shelp the two victims who had been identified were the pilot and co-pilot.
He holded that all bodies are awaited to be recovered by the finish of Saturday.
Teams were depending on a number of factors to help choose passengers, Capt Cristo shelp.
These integrate write downs and the position of bodies in relation to seating, as well as mobile phones recovered from some of the victims.
He holded that the casualties were being transferd to a police morgue in São Paulo.
Lt Ramatuel Silvino of the São Paulo civil defence service shelp family members would be staying in a boilingel in the city.
The schedulee crash is Brazil’s worst since 2007, when a TAM Express schedulee crashed and burst into ffeebles at São Paulo’s Congonhas airport, ending 199 people.
At this stage, it is not understandn what caengaged the ATR 72-500 to crash.
Authorities shelp the fairy sign upers had been recoverd.
ATR, the French-Italian schedulee producer, shelp it would co-function with the allotigation.
According to the tracking website Fairyradar24, fairy 2283 had getn off from Cascavel at 11:56 local time (14:56 GMT) on Friday and was due to get to at 13:40.
The last signal getd from the airoriginate was about 20 minutes before it was scheduled to land.
Brazil’s civil aviation agency shelp the schedulee, which was built in 2010, had been “in outstanding operating condition, with valid registration and airworleaness certificates”.
The four crew members on board at the time of the accident were all duly licensed and had valid qualifications, it holded.
The Uopeccan Cancer Hospital in Cascavel tgreater BBC Brasil that two of its trainee doctors were among the passengers who died.
The moment the passenger schedulee crashed was witnessed by local dwellnts, while others portrayd injure to their homes.
Luiz Augusto de Odwellira tgreater Reuters that he, his wife and their mhelp were at home when “suddenly we saw the airoriginate exploding in the backyard of my hoengage”.
He shelp: “At the time of the collision, we thought it was a helicselecter shattering down, due to the noise.”
He holded that everyone in the hoengage was unharmed and while there was some injure, it was “as minimal as possible, it was material outstandings. I equitable have to thank God for the way the airoriginate crashed.”
Another dwellnt, Nathalie Cicari, tgreater CNN Brasil she had been having lunch when she heard a “very deafening noise very seal by”, describing it appreciate the sound of a drone but “much deafeninger”.
“I went out on the balcony and saw the schedulee spinning. Wilean seconds, I authenticised that it was not a standard transferment for a schedulee.”
Brazil’s Pdwellnt, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, transmited firmarity with the families and frifinishs of the victims at an event where he was speaking.
“I have to be the endureer of very horrible news and I would appreciate everyone to stand up so that we can have a minute of silence,” he tgreater his audience.
He posted on social media that news of the crash was “very sad”. “All my firmarity to the families and frifinishs of the victims,” he shelp.
São Paulo’s state Governor, Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, has proclaimd three days of mourning.
