Passenger plane crashes with 62 people on board (VIDEO)

62 people killed after a passenger plane crashed in Brazil, local officials near the crash site said.

An airplane carrying 58 passengers and four crew members crashed in Brazil on Friday, according to the airline operating the flight.

The plane took off from Cascavel and was headed to the São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, according to a statement from the airline Voepass Linhas Aéreas.

Cascavel is in the state of Paraná, southwest of São Paulo.

The airline said it did not have any information on how the plane crash or the condition of the people on board.

But at an event Friday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told a crowd about the crash and said that it appeared that everyone on board was killed. He did not elaborate as to how that information had been obtained.

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The plane, flight 2283, fell in the city of Vinhedo, Voepass Linhas Aéreas said.

An area of fire and smoke was captured in footage by Brazil’s TV GloboNews. Other footage from the outlet showed a plane spiraling while falling.

Because the plane, an ATR-72, was built in Europe, neither the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board nor the Federal Aviation Administration has jurisdiction over the crash, according to the U.S. agencies.

Brazil has a “robust” crash investigation team, the NTSB said.