A small plane in Brazil plummeted to the ground Saturday, killing all passengers on board, including 12 tourists in addition to the pilot and copilot, according to local reports.
According to local Brazilian outlet, Metrópoles, which cited the local mayor, the Bandeirante model aircraft crashed in the Brazilian northern state of Amazonas in the Barcelos region Saturday.
The Embraer PT-SOG aircraft took off from Manaus, the Amazonas state capital and the biggest city in the Amazon, and was attempting to land in heavy rain when it crashed, local media reported.
The passengers were Brazilian tourists on their way to fish, the reports said.A spokesperson for Barcelos city hall told Metrópoles that there were 12 passengers on board, along with the pilot and copilot, at the time of the horrific crash in the country’s Amazon state
Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil, the Brazilian aviation authorities, did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
There are no survivors after a Voepass flight carrying 61 people crashed in Brazil on Friday, according to authorities.
The passenger plane was traveling from Cascavel, Brazil, and was bound for Guarulhos Airport, near Sao Paulo, the airline said.
The plane had 57 passengers and four crew members on board, the airline said. All died in the crash, State of Sao Paulo firefighters confirmed to ABC News.
Voepass had initially said 58 passengers were on board but later updated the number while also confirming that all 61 people on board the plane died.
One ticketed passenger ended up not being on the flight, authorities said.
There is no confirmation of how the accident occurred, the airline said.
Flight 2283 took off without any operational restrictions, with all systems capable of carrying out the flight, Voepass said.
Brigadier Marcelo Moreno, the head of Brazil’s aviation accidents agency CENIPA, said that the aircraft didn’t communicate any emergency.
“Preliminarily, we have information that there was no information from the aircraft, that it didn’t have any kind of emergency,” Moreno told reporters, stressing that it’s early in the investigation.
CENIPA has possession of the plane’s two black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, according to a press release.
The governor of Sao Paulo is heading back from Vitoria to manage the situation, officials said.
Brazil’s civil aviation agency said in a statement they will be investigating.
ATR, the aircraft manufacturer, said its specialists are “fully engaged to support both the investigation and the customer.”
“Our first thoughts are with all the individuals affected by this event,” the company said in a statement.
The crash was reported to military police at 1:28 p.m. local time.
The 14-year-old two-engine ATR 72 model aircraft was flying at 17,000 feet when it began its rapid descent, according to FlightRadar24.
Fourteen people on a small plane died when it crashed in Brazil’s northern Amazonas state on Saturday, the regional governor said.
The crash took place in Barcelos province, about 250 miles (400km) from the state capital, Manaus.
“I deeply regret the death of the 12 passengers and two crew members who were victims of the plane crash in Barcelos on Saturday,” the Amazonas governor, Wilson Lima, said on X.
“Our teams have been working from the outset to provide the necessary support. My sympathy and prayers go out to their families and friends.“
The Manaus Aerotáxi airline issued a statement confirming there had been an accident and that it was investigating, but it offered no details about deaths or injuries.
“We count on respect for the privacy of those involved at this difficult time and will be available to provide all necessary information and updates as the investigation progresses,” the statement said.
The Brazilian air force said in a statement that investigators from the Accident Investigation and Prevention Centre (CENIPA) had been called in to begin an investigation into the cause of the crash of the aircraft, an Embraer Bandeirante with the registration PT-SOG.
In an interview with O Globo newspaper, Lima said the bodies had already been removed from the aircraft and that the victims were Brazilian tourists.
He also said the most likely cause of the accident was an error in the approach to landing.
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