Plane crashes in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, killing all 61 aboard, airline says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

VINHEDO, Brazil (AP) — A passenger plane crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all 61 people aboard and leaving a smoldering wreck, officials and the airline said.

Officials did not say if anyone was killed on the ground in the neighborhood where the plane landed in the city of Vinhedo, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of the metropolis of Sao Paulo. But witnesses at the scene said there were no victims among local residents.

The airline Voepass said that its plane, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport Guarulhos with 57 passengers and 4 crew members aboard when it crashed in Vinhedo. It provided a flight manifest with passenger names, but not their nationalities. A prior statement had said there were 58 passengers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/passenger-plane-crashes-brazils-sao-171539992.html

[Bo Zarts]

1. Video shows the twin-engine turboprop ATR-72 spinning all the way to ground impact.

Could be a prop failure (propeller going into beta or “reverse”), like the crash in Georgia a while back than killed former US Senator John Tower of Texas .. or a more recent crash of an ATR-72 in Pakistan. Few things cause such a total loss of control as displayed in the video .. but a propeller failure on one side could cause a catastrophic thrust asymmetry, and total loss of control of the aircraft.

Another possible is airframe icing (it is winter in that part of the world). The ATR-72 has a very bad history with respect to icing related issues.