The plane that crashed in Sao Paulo, killing 61 people, fell almost four kilometers in one minute

The turboprop plane of regional airline Voepass (formerly Passaredo) crashed for reasons still unknown on Friday afternoon in rural Vinhedo, a city in the interior of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, killing 61 people in the building, plummeting sharply and dizzily from a height of almost four kilometers before colliding with houses and trees. Information comes from the global aircraft monitoring platform Flightradar, which tracks everything in real time.

According to the platform’s records, the plane, which took off from Cascavel in the state of Paraná in southern Brazil and was heading to Guarulhos Airport in São Paulo at 13:21 local time (17:21 in Lisbon), was flying at absolute speed at an altitude of 5,000 meters. A minute later, at 13:22, Flightradar records already show that the 14-year-old plane, considered safe, at an altitude of only 1,250 meters, made a dizzying fall from an altitude of at least 3,750 meters, followed by a very violent collision, an explosion and a fire that firefighters had great difficulty in controlling.

The crash, in addition to being gigantic in such a short period of time, was spiraling, spiraling, showing that the pilots no longer had any control over the equipment. Before the crash, the craft made a sudden turn, completely outside the normal air navigation route, which was also recorded in real time by aircraft control platforms around the world.

The plane, whose crash was filmed by dozens of residents, making it even more realistic and shocking, crashed on Rua Edueta, in the Canelas area, a suburban housing estate about a kilometer from the center of Vinhedo. At least two houses in an apartment building were damaged by parts of the plane, causing two houses and cars in the garages to catch fire, but there are no reports of casualties locally.