Sao Paulo plane crash latest: Two dead after aircraft hits bus on busy road in ‘huge explosion’
Two people have been killed and at least two others injured in a plane crash in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.
The light aircraft plummeted into busy traffic on a main road and smashed into a bus, causing it to burst into flames.
Huge plumes of thick black smoke could be seen across Marquês de São Vicente, a western part of the city, after the crash.
Witness Genival Dantas Arraes described watching as the plane erupted into a “fireball” on impact.
“The plane suddenly came down the avenue and I just saw everything flying and the fireball,” he told local media.
“It exploded immediately. Everyone was paralyzed. The plane was ripping up palm trees and signs.”
Two people – a motorcyclist and a woman who was on the bus – were injured after they were struck by debris from the explosion, CNN Brasil reported.
The aircraft – a small twin-engine King Air – had left Campo de Marte Airport. The control tower lost contact with the plane minutes later.
