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Videos Show Passenger Plane Fall Out Of The Sky, Crash In Brazil

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A passenger airplane crashed in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, The Associated Press (AP) reported, citing local media sources.

The plane had the capacity to transport dozens of passengers but it is not known how many people were aboard during the crash, the AP reported. (RELATED: ‘Counting My Blessings’: Video Shows Plane Crash-Land, Nearly Take Out Golfer)

Voepass airlines issued a press release in Portuguese saying 61 people were aboard the aircraft — flight 2283 — and that all died at scene of the crash. 57 were passengers and the other four were crew members. The plane was an ATR-72 propeller-driven aircraft. The company had earlier claimed that the plane had been carrying 62 people.

GloboNews, a Brazilian news outlet, tweeted a video showing smoke rising in the distance and provided a preliminary count of those who were aboard the plane.

Local firefighters confirmed that a plane fell from the sky, the AP reported. BNO News tweeted a video of the rapidly descending aircraft.

The video showed an aircraft falling from the sky in what appeared to be an uncontrolled way. The video cuts out right after the plane disappeared behind a bunch of trees.

Another angle of the plane that showed evidence of the crash itself was tweeted out by AEROIN.

The uncontrolled descent of the aircraft as it twisted about was more evident in the video. A massive plume of dark smoke appeared from the area where the plane crashed.

Footage from the crash site showed the remains of the broken plane that was still aflame.

The plane was built 14 years prior to the incident, according to GloboNews.

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect updated information on the number of people aboard the aircraft.