Aerial view of the site where a Voepass airline plane crashed, in Vinhedo, Brazil, on August 9, 2024. A plane with 62 people on board crashed on 09 August in a residential area of the Brazilian municipality of Vinhedo, in the state of Sao Paulo, leaving no survivors.
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A passenger plane crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state on August 9, 2024, killing all 61 people aboard and leaving a smoldering wreck, officials and the airline said. Officials gave no immediate word of any casualties at the site of the crash in the city of Vinhedo but witnesses at the scene said there were no victims among residents of the neighborhood.

The airline VOEPASS said that its plane, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport Guarulhos with 57 passengers and 4 crew members aboard when it crashed in Vinhedo.

It was the deadliest airline crash since January 2023, when 72 people died on board a Yeti Airlines plane in Nepal that stalled and crashed while making its landing approach. That plane also was an ATR 72, and the final report blamed pilot error.

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