Witnesses reveal how Brazilian plane carrying doctors en route to a seminar narrowly missed crashing into a neighbourhood before it 'fell out of the sky and exploded' to leave 61 dead - as aviation experts determine likely cause of 'death spiral'<br /><br />Witnesses have described their horror at watching a plane 'fall out of the sky and explode' in Brazil on Friday - as experts scramble to make sense of what happened.<br /><br />Dramatic video showed the moment a Voepass Airlines plane came spiralling down over populated areas before crashing behind a cluster of trees, near homes.<br /><br />'I almost believe the pilot tried to avoid a nearby neighbourhood, which is densely populated,' Daniel de Lima, a resident of Vinhedo near the crash site, told Reuters.<br /><br />All 61 people on board have been reported dead, though relatives are still waiting for confirmation of the fate of their loved ones.<br /><br />Voepass has since revealed that all those on board - including 57 passengers and four crew - were carrying Brazilian-issued documents.<br /><br />Some of the passengers were doctors from Parana heading to a seminar, Governor Ratinho Junior told reporters.<br /><br />'These were people who were used to saving lives, and now they've lost theirs in such tragic circumstances,' he said.
