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A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed in Brazil’s São Paulo state Friday, the country’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in a video posted on X. It was not immediately clear how many people were killed or injured.
The plane had been traveling from the southern city of Cascavel to the main international airport in São Paulo when it crashed in the nearby city of Vinhedo.
Videos circulating online appeared to show the plane spiraling downward before it crashed into a residential building.
President Lula, who was speaking at an event in southern Brazil, asked the crowd to observe a minute’s silence following the incident. The president said it appeared that all passengers and crew on board had died.
“There is still no confirmation of how the accident occurred or the current situation of the people on board,” VoePass, the airline operating the flight, said in a statement.
