SAO PAULO, Feb 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two people were killed Saturday when a small plane crashed into a sugarcane field in a rural town in Brazil’s southeastern Sao Paulo state, the local fire department said.
The aircraft crashed in the town of Quadrahad after taking off from a nearby airfield, killing the two people onboard.
According to witnesses cited by a fire department spokesperson, the plane attempted an emergency landing but exploded upon hitting the sugarcane plantation.
Local firefighters said they found two charred bodies. Authorities did not release their identities.
The Brazilian Air Force had recorded 19 airplane accidents this year, five of them fatal, before Saturday’s crash.
On Feb. 7, another small aircraft crashed on an avenue in Sao Paulo shortly after taking off from a private airport, killing the pilot and the plane’s owner.
An aircraft crash last August in Vinhedo, near Sao Paulo, killed all 72 people on board. — NNN-AGENCIES
