A plane carrying 61 people has crashed in Brazil.

The aircraft was flying from Cascavel, in Parana to Guarulhos, in Sao Paulo, under the airline Voepass.

According to flight tracking website, Flightradar24, the plane left Cascavel at 11.56 local time and gave its final signal around an hour and a half later.

The plane could be seen in the sky (X/GloboNews)

The airline has confirmed that 61 people were on board the flight, meanwhile Sao Paulo’s fire brigade said that the aircraft crashed in a residential area of Vinhedo.

Emergency service teams rushed to the city, which is home to over 80,000 people.

Footage showing an area on fire and dark smoke coming from what looks to be an aircraft has been broadcast on Brazilian television network, GloboNews.

Meanwhile, footage on social media shows an aircraft descending at speed.

The plane could be seen descending at speed (X/GloboNews)

The plane is believed to have 58 passengers and four crew members on board.

It is not currently clear how many people have been injured in the incident, or if anybody was injured in Vinhedo.

However, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said it ‘appears’ all the passengers on the flight have sadly died in the crash.

“I would like everyone to stand up so that we can observe a minute of silence because a plane has just crashed in the city of Vinhedo, in São Paulo, with 58 passengers and four crew members and it appears they all died,” he said, in a video shared on X, as per CNN.

Black smoke could be seen billowing into the sky (X/GloboNews)

The president did not elaborate on where the information had come from.

Meanwhile, a statement by Voepass said: “The aircraft took off from Cascavel-PR bound for Guarulhos Airport, with 58 passengers and four crew members on board. VOEPASS has taken all measures to support those involved.

“There is still no confirmation of how the accident occurred or the current situation of the people on board. The Company is providing support via telephone at 0800 9419712, available 24 hours a day, providing information to all its passengers, family members and employees.”

You can only imagine what is going through the minds of pilots who are flying a plane which is plummeting towards the Atlantic Ocean in free fall – but chilling recordings from the cockpit can help us fill in the blanks.

Harrowing audio captured the final conversations between captain Marc Dubois, 58, and his two co-pilots David Robert, 37, and Pierre-Cédric Bonin, 32, as they realised their doomed fate on Air France Flight 447.

All 228 onboard – made up of 12 crew members and 216 passengers – were killed when the Airbus A330-203 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on 1 June, 2009.

The fear of those flying the plane is evident in the voices that are heard in the final recordings, which were taken as they began to nosedive towards the icy water beneath them – as the jet disappeared without authorities being alerted.

(Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Days later, debris from the AirFrance jet was found floating among the waves, sparking a two-year search of the depths of the sea totalling up to costs of £27million.

One of the findings search crews made were the black box recorders, which held key information about what had occurred in the air that resulted in 288 people losing their lives.

These electronic recording devices revealed that the plane’s speed sensors – known as pitot tubes – had become blocked and iced up as the jet tried to make its way to Paris through a storm.

(PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP via Getty Images)

Due to this, the plane’s systems were producing faulty data for the flight.

The autopilot on the Airbus A330-203 was disabled, while the pilots were left trying to decipher confusing data regarding their speed and altitude, which eventually saw them decide to resume manual piloting.

But Dubois, Robert and Bonin were following the incorrect navigation data while battling through bad weather.

When the plane entered an aerodynamic stall, the trio mistakenly pointed the nose of the jet upwards instead of down.

This resulted in the Air France flight starting to tumble from the sky as the pilots had a panicked conversation.

(MAURICIO LIMA/AFP via Getty Images)

One began: “We’ve lost our speeds!”

“I don’t know what’s happening,” another concerned voice said.

Bonin then was later heard exclaiming: “Let’s go! Pull up, pull up, pull up!”

“F***, we’re going to crash! It’s not true! But what’s happening?” Robert screamed.

It’s unclear who spoke next, but they seemed to know their fate as someone said: “F***, we’re dead.”

The 205-tonne plane had plummeted 11,500metres from the sky in just four minutes and 24 seconds, tragically killing everyone on board.

All that was left was the terrified cries of the pilots for investigators to help piece what had happened together.

In 2023, a court in Paris ruled that Air France and Airbus were not guilty of manslaughter for the deaths of those on board.

The final words of an Air France pilot on board a plane that crashed into the Atlantic have been revealed.

The Airbus A330, scheduled to fly from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June, 2009. All 228 onboard – including 12 crew members and 216 passengers – were killed.

Chilling audio between the captains has since been shared as Air France Flight 447 was clearly doomed for disaster.

Desperate conversations between captain Marc Dubois, 58, and his two co-pilots David Robert, 37, and Pierre-Cédric Bonin, 32, are evident in their final words before crashing.

The plane accident remains the deadliest in the history of Air France.

All 228 onboard died. (Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Days later, debris from the Air France jet was found floating among the waves, sparking a two-year search of the depths of the sea totalling up to costs of £27 million.

One of the findings search crews made were the black box recorders, which held key information about what had occurred in the air that resulted in 228 people losing their lives.

These electronic recording devices revealed that the plane’s speed sensors – known as pitot tubes – had become blocked and iced up as the jet tried to make its way to Paris through a storm.

Due to this, the plane’s systems were producing faulty data for the flight.

The autopilot on the Airbus A330-203 was disabled, while the pilots were left trying to decipher confusing data regarding their speed and altitude, which eventually saw them decide to resume manual piloting.

But Dubois, Robert and Bonin were following the incorrect navigation data while battling through bad weather.

When the plane entered an aerodynamic stall, the trio mistakenly pointed the nose of the jet upwards instead of down.

This resulted in the Air France flight starting to tumble from the sky as the pilots had a panicked conversation.

The plane accident remains the deadliest in the history of Air France. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP via Getty Images)

One began: “We’ve lost our speeds!”

“I don’t know what’s happening,” another concerned voice said.

Bonin then was later heard exclaiming: “Let’s go! Pull up, pull up, pull up!”

“F***, we’re going to crash! It’s not true! But what’s happening?” Robert screamed.

It’s unclear who spoke next, but they seemed to know their fate as someone said: “F***, we’re dead.”

The 205-tonne plane had plummeted 11,500 metres from the sky in just four minutes and 24 seconds, tragically killing everyone on board.

All that was left was the terrified cries of the pilots for investigators to help piece what had happened together.

In 2023, a court in Paris ruled that Air France and Airbus were not guilty of manslaughter for the deaths of those on board.

A simulation has shown a pilot’s last words before flight AF447 crashed in 2009.

On 1 June, 2009, 12 crew members and 216 passengers were killed when an Air France flight crashed while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

The aircraft pictured in January 2009. (JEREMY MELLOUL/AFP via Getty Images)

The flight was travelling through a storm over the Atlantic when it disappeared off the radar.

In just four minutes and 24 seconds, the aircraft fell 11,500 metres out of the sky.

It’s though that the plane’s speed sensors may have iced up, which triggered autopilot to turn off.

Although debris was spotted in the ocean following the crash, it took almost two years for the black box flight data to be recovered.

In the audio, Marc Dubois, 58, David Robert, 37, and Pierre-Cédric Bonin, 32, could be heard voicing their fears in the final recordings taken just before the plane crashed into the water.

Debris was found following the incident. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP via Getty Images)

“We’ve lost our speeds,” one of the pilots could be heard saying as indicators mistakenly showed a loss of altitude.

“I don’t know what’s happening.”

The automatic pilot disconnected, leaving the three pilots on board in charge.

The crew held up the plane’s nose, but this sent it into an aerodynamic stall. Dubois had been asleep at the time, and the co-pilots didn’t recognise the stall and therefore didn’t move to recover the mistake.

By the time he woke up, Dubois was unable to act quickly enough to save the plane.

Following the recordings, a simulation was created, showing what is believed to be the aircraft’s harrowing final moments.

As the plane began to descend towards the ocean, Bonin can be heard saying: “Let’s go! Pull up, pull up, pull up.”

“F***, we’re going to crash! It’s not true! But what’s happening?” Robert said.

It’s unclear who spoke next, but the final recording reveals one person saying: “F***, we’re dead.”

French air investigations authority, the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) said that the crew in the cockpit had not responded correctly to the problem, and had not had the training needed to manually fly the plane at high altitude once the autopilot had turned off.

While Air France and Airbus denied accusations of negligence, Air France claimed that the alarms confused the pilots in charge.

Last year, a court in Paris ruled that Air France and Airbus were not guilty of manslaughter for the deaths of those on board.

David Koubbi, who was representing the families of a number of passengers, said the ruling was ‘incomprehensible’.

“It is a signal that you can kill 228 people in an air crash and nobody is at fault,” he said.

“The families that I represent are devastated, and this has prevented them from mourning their loved ones.”