Aerial images show the level of destruction as officials work to identify victims.
Video shows the wreckage very close to a house in Vinhedo — a residential area in the western part of São Paulo.
Flight tracking data from Flightradar24 shows the plane dropped roughly 17,000 feet in just one minute. One eyewitness told Reuters the plane fell on the roof of a home of an elderly couple.
In the aerial images, you can see the nose of the plane and the windows of the cockpit. Behind that, burnt scraps of the plane litter the ground, and the tail can be seen in a few trees.
Brazil’s Air Force will investigate the cause behind the crash
The Brazilian Air Force team will investigate the cause of Friday’s deadly plane crash, the Vinhedo City Hall said in a statement.
Vinhedo City Hall said it has been on the site of the crash offering support to other emergency responders. It said in the statement that it is waiting for the Air Force team to arrive, which will be “responsible for the investigation.”
It said the bodies of the victims will be taken to the Legal Medical Institute in Campinas.
Vinhedo City Hall also declared a three-day mourning period in memory of the victims of the crash.
The governor of São Paulo, Brazil, has created a crisis cabinet to respond to the deadly plane crash.
Multiple agencies are at the scene of the crash helping with rescue efforts, the São Paulo Government said earlier in a statement.
No one in the residential area where plane crashed was killed, city spokesperson says
No one was killed in the residential area where the plane crashed, Valinhos City Communications Director Ana Cândida Briski told CNN.
The death toll remains at 62, which were the people who were on board the plane, she said.
