By Sebastian Rocandio
VINHEDO, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian emergency crews on Saturday started to get well the stays of the victims of a airplane crash within the city of Vinhedo, close to Sao Paulo, that killed all 62 on board.
At the least 31 our bodies had been recovered by 1 p.m. (1600 GMT), the Sao Paulo state authorities stated. The our bodies of the pilot and co-pilot had been recognized, stated Dario Pacheco, mayor of Vinhedo.
All of the our bodies are being moved to Sao Paulo’s police morgue.
4 folks with twin citizenship had been among the many victims, three Venezuelans and one Portuguese girl, stated regional provider Voepass, which operated the plane.
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 resembling cell telephones to establish the victims, firefighter Maycon Cristo stated on the crash web site.
“Once all this evidence has been collected, we will remove the victims from the wreckage and place them in the vehicle to be transported to Sao Paulo,” he stated.
Kin of the victims had been dropped at Sao Paulo to supply DNA samples to help in identification of the stays, stated state civil protection coordinator Henguel Pereira.
The airplane’s so-called “black box” containing voice recordings and flight knowledge was present process evaluation, stated Marcelo Moreno, the pinnacle of Brazilian aviation accident investigation middle Cenipa, at a press convention in Vinhedo.
The airplane, an ATR-72 turboprop, was sure for Sao Paulo from Cascavel, within the state of Parana, and crashed round 1:30 p.m. (1630 GMT) in Vinhedo, some 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo. Regardless of 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 power stated in a press release.
Pilots didn’t report an emergency or antagonistic climate situations, the air power added.
Franco-Italian ATR, collectively owned by Airbus and Leonardo, is the dominant producer of regional turboprop planes seating 40 to 70 folks. ATR advised Reuters on Friday that its specialists had been “fully engaged” with the investigation into the crash.
