By Sebastian Rocandio
VINHEDO, Brazil (Reuters) -Work was underway on Saturday by Brazilian authorities in recovering the stays of passengers on a airplane that crashed on Friday within the city of Vinhedo, close to Sao Paulo, killing all 62 individuals on board.
At the least 31 our bodies had been recovered by 1 p.m. native time (1600 GMT) on Saturday, the Sao Paulo state authorities stated. The our bodies of the pilot and co-pilot have been recognized, stated Dario Pacheco, mayor of Vinhedo.
All of the our bodies are being moved to Sao Paulo’s police morgue.
A Venezuelan man and Portuguese girl are among the many lifeless, state civil protection official Roberto Farina stated, including that the native consulates have already been contacted.
On Friday regional service Voepass stated the airplane was carrying 57 passengers and 4 crew, however on Saturday the agency confirmed one other unaccounted-for passenger was 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.
“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.
Relations of the victims have been delivered to Sao Paulo to offer DNA samples to assist 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 is present process evaluation, stated Marcelo Moreno, the pinnacle of Brazilian aviation accident investigation heart 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. (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 drive stated in an announcement.
Pilots didn’t report an emergency or antagonistic climate circumstances, 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 informed Reuters on Friday that its specialists have been “fully engaged” with the investigation into the crash.
