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.
Not less than 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 resembling cell telephones to determine the victims, firefighter Maycon Cristo stated on the crash web site.
“As soon as all this proof has been collected, we are going to take away the victims from the wreckage and place them within the automobile to be transported to Sao Paulo,” he stated.
Relations of the victims have been delivered to Sao Paulo to supply DNA samples to help in identification of the stays, stated state civil protection coordinator Henguel Pereira.
The airplane’s so-called “black field” containing voice recordings and flight information is present process evaluation, stated 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 damage.
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 a press release.
Pilots didn’t report an emergency or adversarial climate situations, 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 advised Reuters on Friday that its specialists have been “totally engaged” with the investigation into the crash.
