Plane crashes in Brazil's Sao Paulo, killing all 61 aboard

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00:00All that remains is a smoldering wreck off the plane after it plummeted from the sky.

00:06It crashed in the city of Vinhedo, about 80 kilometers northwest of Sao Paulo.

00:11The airline Voipass said that it was heading for Sao Paulo's international airport.

00:16All of 57 passengers and four crew members on board were killed.

00:20The ATR-72500 twin-engine turboprop aircraft crashed into a gated residential community.

00:28I thought it was going to fall in our yard.

00:31It was scary, but thank God there were no victims among the locals.

00:35It seems that the people inside the plane were the real victims.

00:40Firefighters, military police and the civil defense authority dispatched teams to the

00:45crashed site and sealed off the entrance to the residential area where the plane went down.

00:50At an event in southern Brazil, the country's president asked the crowd to observe a minute's silence.

00:57I would like everyone to stand for a minute of silence because a plane has just crashed

01:04in the city of Vinhedo, in Sao Paulo.

01:07There were 58 passengers and four crew members and it seems that all of them have died.

01:16It was subsequently confirmed that the death toll was 61 people.

01:20The Brazilian Air Force's Center for the Investigation and Prevention of Air Accidents said that

01:25the pilots didn't respond to calls from air traffic control in Sao Paulo, nor did they call for help

01:30or say they were operating under adverse weather conditions.

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