Plane with 62 people aboard crashes in fiery wreck in Brazil

A plane with 62 people aboard crashed in a fiery wreck in a residential area of a city in Brazil's Sao Paulo state Friday, the airline said. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured or killed but the country's president said everyone on board was presumed dead.

The airline VoePass confirmed in a statement that a plane headed for Sao Paulo's international airport in Guarulhos crashed with 58 passengers and 4 crew members aboard. The statement didn't say what caused the accident.

Brazilian television network GloboNews, citing the airline, reported the aircraft was a turboprop ATR-72 passenger plane.