At a briefing Friday afternoon, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mentioned, “I have to be the bearer of really bad news,” and referred to as for a minute of silence to honor the 58 passengers and 4 crew members aboard the aircraft that crashed in Vinhedo, a metropolis northwest of São Paulo.

The reason for the crash is unknown, he mentioned, however added, “It appears all have died.”

BREAKING: Voepass Flight 2283, a big passenger aircraft, crashes in Vinhedo, Brazil pic.twitter.com/wmpJLVYbB3

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In a social media put up, Voepass, a regional airline based mostly in São Paulo state, confirmed that its aircraft, flight 2283, had crashed. The aircraft departed from Cascavel, a Brazilian metropolis close to the nation’s southern border with Paraguay and Argentina, and was headed to Guarulhos, simply outdoors São Paulo, Voepass mentioned in its put up.

We are following stories of a crash of a VoePass ATR 72 close to São Paulo, Brazil. We are at present processing granular knowledge from this flight. https://t.co/1MwrzhJ0gU pic.twitter.com/ozBx2sL5lZ

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FlightConscious knowledge indicated the aircraft, a twin-engine turboprop ATR-72, departed at 11:50 a.m. native time and was scheduled to land simply earlier than 2 p.m.

One girl in Vinhedo, Brazil, mentioned she heard the aircraft earlier than she noticed it.

“I heard a very loud noise, very close to me. I thought it was a drone. I looked up to the sky and saw the plane spinning,” Nathalie Cicari instructed CNN.

#WATCH : More visuals from the crash web site of a Voepass Linhas Aéreas ATR 72-500 aircraft.#Vinhedo #Brazil #PlaneCrash #Crash #Cascavel #Guarulhos #saopaulo #VoepassAirlines pic.twitter.com/B98fcnZF0R

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Another eyewitness, Felipe Magalhaes, instructed Reuters that he heard the aircraft because it was falling. Speaking in Portuguese, he mentioned he seemed out of his window simply because it crashed. He rushed to the wreckage, not simply to see however to attempt to assist individuals in the neighborhood.

“The way it fell—I ran out of the house and went to see where it had fallen and saw it had crashed into the house of a couple of elderly people. We also knew them from church. Terrified and not knowing what to do, I jumped over the wall,” Magalhaes mentioned.

A person who missed the flight instructed Brazilian information outlet Globo that a minimum of 10 individuals have been ready on the flawed gate and missed the flight earlier than it took off.

“They said to me, ‘Mister, you’re not getting on this plane because we’re already past the boarding limit.’ I even pressured them a little. ‘Mister, put me on this plane, I have to go,’ then he said, ‘There’s no way, what I can do is rebook your ticket,’” the unnamed man mentioned.