SAO PAULO — Forensics experts at Sao Paulo's morgue had by Tuesday (Aug 13) identified the bodies of 35 of the 62 people who were killed in a plane crash in a residential area of Vinhedo last week, killing all aboard, authorities said.

A Brazilian Air Force KC-390 transport plane flew the remains of three passengers back to Cascavel in southern Brazil from where the aircraft had departed, and will continue to transport the bodies as they are released from the morgue.

The morgue said that so far it had released 17 bodies to family members along with death certificates.

The causes that led the French-built ATR-72 turboprop plane operated by regional carrier Voepass to plunge in a flat spin to the ground have yet to be established.

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