Brazil crash: 'I went to the balcony and saw the plane spinning'

Witnesses in Vinhedo describe the moment a Voepass plane fell out of the sky, leaving 61 people dead.

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“I saw it passing over my house. It was in a tailspin and smoke was coming out of it," Edival Monteiro de Souza, 67, told BBC Brasil.

"Then it came straight down and fell on top of the hill. It was all very fast. The noise was very loud, it made you shudder. Then black smoke went up and that was it.”

Letícia Oliveira do Nascimento, 25, said that the falling aircraft looked like a paper plane.

"It was clear that the pilot had lost control and that something bad could happen," she told BBC Brasil.

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