At least seven dead in Brazil plane crash

An executive jet crashed in a heavily populated neighbourhood of Sao Paulo today, killing at least seven people and leaving a pile of smoky rubble just months after the city suffered the nation’s deadliest air disaster.

The plane, a Learjet 35 belonging to a Brazilian air taxi company, slammed into at least two houses shortly after taking off, airport authority Infraero spokeswoman Lucia Ferreira said.