What We Know About the Plane Crash in Brazil

A passenger plane carrying 61 people crashed on Friday outside São Paulo, Brazil. No one on board survived.

The plane crashed in the yard of a home, but it did not hit any residences and no injuries were reported among people on the ground, officials said.

Here is what we know about the crash:

The plane was on its way to São Paulo.

VoePass Flight 2283 took off from Cascavel, in southern Brazil, at 11:46 a.m., the airline said. It was headed east to Guarulhos airport, just outside São Paulo.

Near its destination, the plane’s transponder signaled that it was descending quickly from its cruising altitude of 17,000 feet, according to Flightradar24, a provider of flight data. For about a minute, the transponder reported losing altitude at a rate of between 8,000 feet and 24,000 feet per minute, the company said.

Officials said that the pilots sent no emergency signal.

There were 89 seconds between the indication of a problem to the final data received from the aircraft at 1:22 p.m., Flightradar24 said. The plane crashed in Vinhedo, a small city northwest of São Paulo, the airline said.

Videos showed the plane spiraling down.

Videos filmed by people on the ground in Vinhedo showed the aircraft slowly spinning horizontally as it fell from the sky. The loud rumbling of a plane’s engine could be heard. After the plane disappeared from view near a gated community, a giant plume of black smoke was seen rising from the spot.