Passenger plane carrying 62 people crashes in Brazil, president says

• A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed on the outskirts of São Paulo on Friday, according to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
• Lula said it “appears” that everyone on board the flight may have died. It is not clear what caused the crash.
• Dramatic social media videos on Friday afternoon showed a plane crashing in a residential area outside of São Paulo. The aircraft crashed into multiple houses, according to Brazil’s Civil Defense.
• Editor’s note: The video above on this page contains graphic and disturbing images. Viewer discretion is advised.

The plane that was headed to Guarulhos, Brazil, crashed in Vinhedo — a residential area in the western part of the city.

CNN has confirmed through geolocation that the passenger plane crashed next to a home in Vinhedo.

Flight 2283 departed from Cascavel.

The aircraft, registration PS-VPB, is an ATR 72-500 and has a total capacity of 74 people, according to Flightradar24.

The official investigation into a fatal plane crash in Brazil will be the key to figuring out what caused the aircraft to drop out of the sky and into a residential area on Friday.

Video posted on social media shows the plane falling nearly straight down. Brazil’s Civil Defense said it crashed into multiple houses, as reported by CNN Brasil.

“We don’t know if there was any kind of mid-air collision, whether there was an engine failure. We just don’t have enough facts,” CNN aviation analyst Peter Goetz told CNN’s Isa Soares.

But what the clip does show is that the plane was “out of control” and the pilots did not have enough altitude to recover, he said.

“It was in a very perilous state, but how it got there will be the job of the investigators to figure out,” Goetz said.

One woman captured video of the aftermath of a plane crashing into her neighbor’s house outside of São Paulo.

The aircraft crashed into multiple houses, according to Brazil’s Civil Defense, reported by CNN Brasil. At least 62 people on the plane were killed, according to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

CNN correspondent Julia Vargas Jones said she spoke to that woman on the phone. The video shows smoke and fire coming up from below her building.

She told CNN she was eating lunch in her kitchen when she saw the plane going down. She said she was terrified and ducked down and started praying.

That woman told Jones it was a “moment of panic in the city.”

Jones reported that the woman is safe now, but she is not able to get back to her apartment. The private roads that lead up to the properties are closed off to everyone, including residents. She said the woman told her first responders are in the area.

Sixty-two people are dead after a plane crash in Brazil, the country’s president said.

“First I have to be the bearer of very bad news and I would like everyone to stand up so that we can observe a minute of silence because a plane has just crashed in the city of Vinhedo, in São Paulo, with 58 passengers and 4 crew members and it appears they all died. I want to ask for a minute of silence for the victims,” President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on X.

Dramatic social media videos on Friday afternoon show a small plane crashing in a residential area outside of São Paulo. The aircraft crashed into multiple houses, according to Brazil’s Civil Defense, reported by CNN Brasil.

The flight was carrying 58 passengers and four crew members at the time of the crash, according to a statement by airline Voepass.

According to data on Flightradar24, the Voepass plane left Cascavel and was en route to São Paulo when it lost signal shortly before 1:30 p.m. local time.

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