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A piece of the plane hit a bus, wounding a woman inside, while a motorcyclist was beaten by another piece of remains, firefighters said. Both received medical attention.
A drone view shows people who inspect the site where a small plane crashed into vehicles on Marques de Sao Vicente Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Reuters)
A small plane crashed on an avenue in Sao Paulo on Friday morning shortly after taking off from a nearby private airport, killing the pilot and the owner of the plane, authorities said. The two were the only people on board.
The plane fell into the busy neighborhood Barba on the western side of the city, near its center. A piece of the plane hit a bus, wounding a woman inside, while a motorcyclist was beaten by another piece of remains, firefighters said. Both received medical attention.
A subsequent statement said that four more injured people were taken to hospitals in the area with minor injuries. Governor Tarcísio de Freitas said in X that the two dead were the pilot, Gustavo Medeiros, and the owner of the plane, Márcio Carpena.
A CCTV video obtained by the local television network TV TV Globe showed the time of the accident. The plane crashed into Avenida a few meters (yards) beyond an intersection, where a car line was waiting to advance.
The images in the local media showed the fuselage of the plane and the flame bus, with firefighters working to extinguish the fire. Avenue houses office buildings and there is a key bus, train and a nearby subway station.
It was not known what had caused the plane to lose altitude less than 5 kilometers from the private airport from where it had left a few minutes before. He was obliged to Porto Alegre, in the state of the south of Rio Grande do Sul.
The Brazilian Air Force said it would investigate the accident as quickly as possible.
Brazil has had several mortal accidents of small airplanes in recent years, including one last August in Vinhedo, near Sao Paulo that was particularly shocking. The images of that crash showed that a passenger plane fell into a flat turn before colliding against the backyard of a house in a closed community, killing the 72 people on board.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED -Associated Press Union News Agency)
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