Horror unfolded on a busy street in Brazil after a plane crashed into a bus in a Sao Paulo neighborhood.
The small aircraft was reportedly attempting an emergency landing when it rammed into a bus on Friday morning.
The crash site of the King Air F90 light aircraft was engulfed in black clouds of smoke and massive flames.
A small plane crashed into a bus on a busy street in Brazil
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At least two people have been killed in the collision.
Two others, a motorcyclist and a female commuter on the bus, were also injured and rushed to the hospital for medical attention.
The motorcyclist was hit by a piece of equipment from the debris.
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Other passengers on the bus managed to safely exit the vehicle.
Prior to the crash, the aircraft had taken off from the Campo de Marte Airport and was on its way to the city of Porto Alegre in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
However, the plane reportedly lost contact with the control tower within minutes of its departure.
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Videos circulating online captured the bus engulfed in flames as plumes of smoke billowed up.
“What a tragedy!” a social media user exclaimed on X.
“There are a lot of planes crashing, huh?” read the translation of another tweet.
At least two people were killed in the collision
🚨BRASIL: Veja momento em que avião cai e explode em avenida de São Paulo. pic.twitter.com/AFpM0dRjdN
— CHOQUEI (@choquei) February 7, 2025
🚨ASSISTA: Novo ângulo do avião que caiu e explodiu em São Paulo, na Barra Funda. pic.twitter.com/n8ZAhxbKAT
— CHOQUEI (@choquei) February 7, 2025
One witness, Genival Dantas Arraes, recalled seeing the plane explode “immediately.”
“Suddenly the plane came down the avenue and I just saw everything flying and the fireball,” the witness was quoted saying.
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After the explosion, onlookers were “paralyzed,” with the impact unfolding “very quickly.”
“The plane was ripping up palm trees and signs. It went by very quickly,” the witness added.
The bus driver, who was behind the wheel of the vehicle, was seen in tears talking about the harrowing incident in one video.
Um avião de pequeno porte acaba de cair na Barra Funda, na Av Marquês de São Vicente pic.twitter.com/4yP5yebvYU
— Cleiton Tortato (@cleitontortato) February 7, 2025
“All I know is that I saved everyone,” the emotional driver said.
Local news outlets reported that the Beechcraft King Air F90 model plane belonged to a lawyer named Márcio Louzada Carpena from Rio Grande do Sul.
“Us. Flying at 600 km/h,” Márcio wrote in the caption of a post he shared last month on Instagram.
The bus driver was captured in tears following the unexpected collision
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🚨VEJA: Motorista do ônibus atingido por avião em SP chora e se emociona após o acontecido.
pic.twitter.com/NGhyo75bhB— CHOQUEI (@choquei) February 7, 2025
The news of the collision came just days after two planes collided at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
On February 5, a Japan Airlines jet slammed into the tail of an already parked Delta plane at the airport.
Passengers were onboard both the involved aircrafts during the collision.
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Another tragedy took place last month after American Airlines flight 5342 collided with a US Army Black Hawk Helicopter.
All 60 passengers and four crew members on the passenger flight, along with three soldiers flying in the military chopper, were killed.
Several passengers were from the US ice skating community, who tragically had their lives cut short.
“This plane disasters [sic] getting out of hand,” one social media user said
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