well breaking news uh in the past hour from Brazil where a passenger plane has crashed while flying to sou Paulo local media Outlets say it had 62 people on board let's get more on this story from our correspondent Emma Burley who's following the updat Emma what do we know so far yeah 62 people on board four of whom were members of the crew it was at 1:30 local time about halfast 5 UK time that contact was lost with the aircraft now I must warn you we're about to show you some video uh of the moments
as that plane loses control is spiraling downwards to the grounds you can see it here I mean truly horrific the plane uh is uh Spirals and then hits the ground there's a pause uh and then a short time later a black plume of smoke rises in into uh the sky it came down on the city of Vigo in the state of sou Paulo which is in the Southeastern uh part of Brazil um and what is very concerning is that this is a residential area we understand with a number of houses at the moment it's not
clear um how many people have been killed and injured in this but you can see the Flames there and there's been smoke coming from the the fuselage uh this an aircraft operated uh by a Brazilian Airline called vas linas Aras based in sou Paulo operating internal flights uh this is an atr72 plane we're told um traveling from cascavel in the state of piranha to guos uh in South poo seven fire Crews sent um but at the moment there has been no um description no uh explanation of what may have caused this horrific crash which no
doubt will result in loss of life and we know that already this evening well during the day in Brazil the president Luis inao Lula de Silva has asked a crowd to stand for a minute silence uh at an event in the south of Brazil so an aircraft com around down at around halfast 5 UK time with 62 people on board four of them members of the crew
