Families of Brazilian plane crash victims gather in Sao Paulo

Firefighters and rescue teams work at the site in a residential area where an airplane with 61 people on board crashed in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil (Andre Penner/AP)

Families of victims of an airliner crash in Brazil are gathering on Sunday at a morgue and hotels in Sao Paulo as forensics experts work to identify the remains of the 62 people killed in the accident.

Local authorities said the bodies of the pilot, Danilo Santos Romano, and his co-pilot, Humberto de Campos Alencar e Silva, were the first to be identified by forensics experts.