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Families of Brazilian plane crash victims gather in Sao Paulo
Firefighters and rescue teams work at the site in a residential area where an airplane with 61 people on board crashed in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, August 10, 2024
FAMILIES of the victims of a plane crash in Brazil gathered in Sao Paulo today as forensics experts worked to identify the remains of the 62 people killed in Friday’s accident.
Authorities said the bodies of the pilot, Danilo Santos Romano, and his co-pilot, Humberto de Campos Alencar e Silva, were the first to be identified by forensics experts.
Sao Paulo state government said that the remains of all the victims had been recovered. There were 34 male and 28 female bodies in the wreckage, it said.
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