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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.