By Sebastian Rocandio
VINHEDO, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian emergency crews on Saturday started to get better 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 very least 31 our bodies had been recovered by 1 p.m. (1600 GMT), the Sao Paulo state authorities mentioned. The our bodies of the pilot and co-pilot have been recognized, mentioned Dario Pacheco, mayor of Vinhedo.
All of the our bodies are being moved to Sao Paulo’s police morgue.
4 individuals with twin citizenship have been among the many victims, three Venezuelans and one Portuguese girl, mentioned regional service Voepass, which operated the plane.
On Friday Voepass mentioned 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 reminiscent of cell telephones to establish the victims, firefighter Maycon Cristo mentioned on the crash website.
“As soon as all this proof has been collected, we’ll take away the victims from the wreckage and place them within the automobile to be transported to Sao Paulo,” he mentioned.
Kinfolk of the victims have been delivered to Sao Paulo to offer DNA samples to assist in identification of the stays, mentioned state civil protection coordinator Henguel Pereira.
The airplane’s so-called “black field” containing voice recordings and flight knowledge was present process evaluation, mentioned Marcelo Moreno, the top 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 harm.
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 pressure mentioned in an announcement.
Pilots didn’t report an emergency or adversarial climate situations, the air pressure 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 have been “absolutely engaged” with the investigation into the crash.