( NBC )
An airplane carrying 57 passengers and four crew members crashed in Brazil on Friday, killing everyone on board, the airline operating the flight said.
The Voepass Linhas Aéreas flight took off from Cascavel and was headed to the São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport when it crashed, according to an earlier statement from Voepass Linhas Aéreas.
Cascavel is in the state of Paraná, southwest of São Paulo.
The airline confirmed Friday afternoon that all 61 people on board were killed. It had previously said the aircraft was carrying 62 people.
The airline released the names of the passengers and crew Friday evening.
The airline said it did not have any information on how the plane crashed.
At an event Friday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told a crowd about the crash, asking for a moment of silence, and noting that it appeared that everyone on board was killed.
The plane, flight 2283, fell in the city of Vinhedo, Voepass Linhas Aéreas said.
Response teams have been mobilized in the neighborhood where the plane crashed. The teams include firefighters, military police and the civil defense authority, the São Paulo government said in a post on X.
Firefighters completed battling the blaze from the crash site from earlier Friday afternoon, the government said in a later post on Friday.
The area was then released to investigators including a scientific police unit.
An area of fire and smoke was captured in footage by Brazil's TV GloboNews. Other footage from the outlet showed a plane spiraling while falling.
Because the plane, an ATR-72, was built in Europe, neither the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board nor the Federal Aviation Administration has jurisdiction over the crash, according to the U.S. agencies.
Brazil has a "robust" crash investigation team, the NTSB said.
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