
Authorities have confirmed that all passengers and crew were killed in a plane crash in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo and that bodies have been recovered from the scene.
Teams were working to search for and identify victims of the disaster after a twin-engine turboprop plane operated by the airline Vopas crashed in the town of Vinhedo.
The death toll was revised upward to 62 on Saturday.
Vaupass had previously said the ATR 72-500 plane was flying from Cascavel in the southern state of Paraná to Guarulhos airport in the city of São Paulo with 57 passengers and four crew members on board, but later confirmed that another passenger was missing on the flight.
Footage circulating on social media shows the plane descending vertically and then spiraling as it falls.
The plane crashed in a residential area, but no one on the ground was injured and only one building in a local apartment complex was damaged, authorities said.
The state of Sao Paulo said it had completed the removal of the victims’ bodies from the site at 18:30 local time (22:30 BST) on Saturday.
He added that the bodies – 34 men and 28 women – had been taken to a police morgue in Sao Paulo to be identified and handed over to their families.
Two of the victims, the captain and co-pilot, have already been identified, state authorities confirmed.
Family members of the victims will be staying in hotels in the city to help identify them, and 38 families have arrived so far.
Earlier, fire department spokesman Capt. Macon Crist said teams were relying on several factors to identify occupants.
These include documents, the position of the bodies in relation to the seats, and mobile phones recovered from some of the victims.

The crash was Brazil’s worst since 2007, when a TAM Express plane crashed and burst into flames at Sao Paulo’s Congonhas airport, killing 199 people.
At this time, it is unclear what caused the ATR 72-500 to crash.
Authorities said the flight recorder has been recovered.
French-Italian aircraft maker ATR said it would cooperate with the investigation.
Flight 2283 took off from Cascavel at 11:56 local time (14:56 GMT) on Friday, and was due to arrive at 13:40, according to tracking website Flightradar24.
The last signal was received from the aircraft about 20 minutes before it was scheduled to land.
Brazil’s civil aviation authority said the plane, built in 2010, “had a valid registration, an airworthiness certificate and was in good operating condition.”
It added that all four crew members on board at the time of the accident were duly licensed and had valid qualifications.
The Uopecan Cancer Hospital in Cascavel told BBC Brazil that two of its medical trainees were among the passengers who died.
Local residents reported witnessing the plane crash, and some said their homes were damaged.
Luiz Augusto de Oliveira told Reuters he, his wife and maid were at home when “suddenly we saw a plane explode in our backyard.”
“At the time of the collision, I thought the helicopter had broken down because of the noise,” he said.
He added that everyone inside the home was unharmed and that while there was some damage, “it was minimal, material damage. We can only thank God for the way the plane went down.”
Another resident, Natalie Sicari, told CNN Brazil she was eating lunch when she heard a “very loud noise very close by,” which she said sounded similar to a drone but “louder.”
“I went out onto the balcony and saw the plane spinning. Within a few seconds I knew that wasn’t a normal motion for an airplane.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke at the event, expressing solidarity with the families and friends of the victims.
“I have to deliver some very bad news. I want to ask you all to stand and hold a minute of silence,” he told the audience.
He posted on social media that the news of the crash was “deeply saddening.” “I express my deepest solidarity with the families and friends of the victims,” he said.
Sao Paulo state Governor Tarcisio Gomes de Freitas declared three days of mourning.