Brazil’s air force flies remains of three plane crash victims to families

Air Force members load the remains of plane crash victims into a plane to transport them to their families in Cascavel where the August 9 flight originated, at an air force base in Sao Paulo (Andre Penner/AP)

A Brazilian air force plane carried the remains of three of the 62 people killed in last week’s plane crash to a small city in the country’s south where they were to be handed over to their families for burial.

Forensics experts have so far identified 45 of the victims and authorised that the remains of 27 of them be returned to their families, the Sao Paulo state government said later on Tuesday.