Brazilian rescue staff recovered Saturday the stays of all 62 victims who had been killed in a airplane crash within the city of Vinhedo, close to Sao Paulo a day earlier than.
The our bodies of a lot of the victims – 34 males and 28 females – had already been moved to Sao Paulo’s police morgue for identification. The our bodies of the pilot and co-pilot had been recognized earlier within the day, stated Dario Pacheco, mayor of Vinhedo.
Four individuals with twin citizenship had been among the many victims, three Venezuelans and one Portuguese girl, stated regional provider Voepass, which operated the plane.
The Venezuelans had been a 4-year-old boy, his mom and grandmother, native outlet Globo News reported. The boy’s canine was additionally on the flight, which the household was taking to later head to Colombia, in keeping with the outlet.
On Friday, Voepass stated the airplane was carrying 57 passengers and 4 crew however on Saturday the agency confirmed one other unaccounted-for passenger had been on the flight, placing the variety of casualties at 62.
Authorities are utilizing seat assignments, bodily traits, paperwork and belongings akin to cell telephones to determine the victims, firefighter Maycon Cristo stated on the crash website earlier on Saturday because the our bodies had been being pulled from the wreckage.
Relatives of the victims had been dropped at Sao Paulo to supply DNA samples to assist within the identification of the stays, stated state civil protection coordinator Henguel Pereira.
The airplane’s so-called “black box” containing voice recordings and flight information was present process evaluation, stated Marcelo Moreno, the top of the Brazilian aviation accident investigation middle Cenipa, at a press convention in Vinhedo.
The airplane, an ATR-72 turboprop, was certain for Sao Paulo from Cascavel, within the state of Parana, and crashed round 1:30 p.m. (04:30 a.m. GMT) in Vinhedo, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo. Despite coming down in a residential space, nobody on the bottom was damage.
The plane was flying usually till 1:21 p.m., when it stopped responding to calls, and radar contact was misplaced at 1:22 p.m., Brazil’s air drive stated in a press release.
Pilots didn’t report an emergency or opposed climate situations, the air drive added.
Franco-Italian ATR, collectively owned by Airbus and Leonardo, is the dominant producer of regional turboprop planes seating 40 to 70 individuals. ATR instructed Reuters on Friday that its specialists had been “fully engaged” with the investigation into the crash.
Source: www.dailysabah.com