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Video | Lula asks for minute of silence for Brazil plane crash victims

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President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaexpressed regret over the crash of a plane carrying 62 people in Sao Paulo and He asked for a minute of silence in memory of the victims.

Lula learned of the accident as he was preparing to give a speech at an event in the municipality of Itajaí, in the state of Santa Catarina, and He interrupted the event to regret the incident.

“I have to be the bearer of very bad news and I want to ask everyone to stand up and say a minute of silence because in the city of Vinhedo, in São Paulo, a plane with 58 passengers and 4 crew members has just crashed and it seems that ‘everyone is dead,'” Lula told those present.

The president published a video of the statement on social media, in which he also expressed his full solidarity with the families and friends of the victims.

The cause of the Vinhedo plane crash is unknown.

The twin-engine ATR-72-500 aircraft, operated by Voepass, which was flying between Cascavel and São Paulo, crashed in a residential area of ​​the municipality. Vinedo.

According to the airline, it is currently unknown how the accident occurred and what the current situation of the passengers is.

Seven fire brigades were mobilized to eliminate the accident.

Colonel Cássio de Araujo de Freitas of the Sao Paulo military police said there were no casualties on the ground because the plane crashed in “an empty space” in the Recanto Florido condominium, a high-income urbanization.

According to the specialized website Flightradar, the plane was flying at an altitude of about 3,500 meters above sea level and crashed about a minute later.

According to Flightradar, the plane made two more flights on Friday morning before the crash.

It is the worst air disaster to occur on Brazilian soil since 2007, when a TAM plane crashed into a warehouse after skidding off the runway at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, killing 199 people.

In 2009, a plane flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 216 people on board. (EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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