image of police standing outside gated residential neighborhood
Brazilian police guarding the gated community where a plane crashed on Friday.
  • A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed in São Paulo, Brazil on Friday, the AP reported.
  • Brazil's president said it appears everyone on board died.
  • It's not yet clear what caused the crash.

A passenger plane carrying 62 people has crashed in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, the airline Voepass confirmed in a statement on its website.

The plane, which was headed toward São Paulo's Guarulhos International Airport from Cascavel, had 58 passengers and four crew members on board when it fell from the sky in the town of Vinhedo on Friday, the airline wrote on its website.