A passenger plane carrying 62 people has crashed on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil, killing all aboard.

The plane was carrying 58 passengers and four crew members at the time of the crash on Friday, according to a statement by Voepass airline.

Footage on social media showed the plane losing balance before spiraling down into a crash.

Brazil’s civil defense said the aircraft crashed into multiple houses.

Authorities said only one home was damaged when the plane crashed, noting that no resident was injured.

More videos showed the aircraft in flames after it came down as thick smoke billowed into the air.

The airline has yet to confirm the cause of the crash.

President Luiz Lula da Silva described the news as “very sad” and extended his solidarity to the families and friends of the victims.

The Brazilian Air Force said it has sent a team of investigators to the site.

The Niger Republic junta says it has severed ties with Ukraine after accusing the European country of supporting “terrorist groups”.

Amadou Abdramane, junta spokesperson, announced on Tuesday that the decision was “with immediate effect” — two days after Mali made a similar move.

The Malian army suffered heavy losses at the hands of jihadists and separatist forces late July, which they partly blamed on Ukraine.

Almost half of the murdered soldiers were Wagner mercenaries.

The row occurred after Andriy Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s military spy agency, said the Malian rebels had received the “necessary” information to conduct the attack.

After Mali cut ties with Ukraine, the European country rejected the accusation and said it regretted the “hasty” decision Bamako made.

“The government of the Republic of Niger learned with great amazement and deep indignation, the subversive and unacceptable remarks of Mr. Andriy Yusov,” Abdramane said.

“The government of the Republic of Niger, in total solidarity with the government and people of Mali, decides in complete sovereignty to sever diplomatic relations between the Republic of Niger and Ukraine with immediate effect.”

The spokesperson said Niger would ask the United Nations (UN) security council to debate Ukraine’s “aggression”.

Niger and Mali are run by military governments.

The former French colonies snapped defence agreements with France and the US — countries that played key roles in the fight against insurgencies in both nations — and turned to Russia for help.

A helicopter crashed in central Nepal on Wednesday, killing all five people aboard including the pilot and four Chinese passengers.

Nepal has a woeful track record on aviation safety and the Himalayan republic has seen a spate of deadly light plane and helicopter crashes over the decades.

The Air Dynasty chopper was heading to Syabrubesi, a starting point for many trekking routes popular with tourists, from the capital Kathmandu.

It lost contact about three minutes after taking off, a press release from the Civil Aviation Authority said, and crashed in Nuwakot district north of the capital.

“All five people aboard including the pilot are dead,” police spokesman Dan Bahadur Karki told AFP.

Nuwakot district officer Ram Krishna Adhikari, said five dead bodies have been retrieved from the accident site.

“Police have already reached the site and the rescue operation is going on,” he said.

Nepal’s air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers and climbers.

But it has been plagued by poor safety due to insufficient training and maintenance, issues compounded by mountainous Nepal’s treacherous geography.

The Himalayan republic has some of the world’s most remote and tricky runways, flanked by snow-capped peaks with approaches that pose a challenge even for accomplished pilots.

The European Union has banned all Nepali carriers from its airspace over safety concerns.