The nation of Brazil was left in mourning last week following a plane crash that killed over 60 people. 

According to CNN, the aircraft in question was a twin-engine turboprop plane known as an ATR 72-500 and it came down this past Friday in Vinhedo, a city outside São Paulo.

Plane dropped 17,000 feet in a minute

While the cause of the plane's crash has yet to be determined, radar showed it plummeting 17,000 feet in a single minute, something which was captured on viral video footage.

🚨 Voepass Flight 2283, a sizable passenger aircraft, has crashed in Vinhedo, Brazil. pic.twitter.com/yN8j6PkCoM

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The plane was owned by regional airline Voepass, which initially announced that 61 people had died. However, the figure was later raised to 62 after it was confirmed that another passenger was on board.

Voepass CEO Eduardo Busch addressed the tragedy when speaking with reporters at a press conference, saying, "The entire crew was competent."

"We are waiting for access to all communications between the pilot and the control tower to have a broader understanding of what happened," Busch added.

Bodies of victims remained seated following crash

Maycon Cristo serves as a spokesperson for the Sao Paulo fire brigade, and he told CNN that all of the victims were found seated and none had been ejected from the aircraft.

"Officials are working row by row (of the crashed aircraft) to retrieve and identify the bodies," Cristo was quoted as saying.

CNN noted that although all of the victims had Brazilian documents, Portugal's foreign ministry identified one of the victims as a Portuguese citizen. It is not clear if that individual was a dual national.

USA Today reported that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silv called for a minute of silence at an event on Friday to honor those who had lost their lives in the tragedy.

Aviation expert believes "there was something wrong with one or both engines"

Meanwhile, Fox News spoke with former pilot and aviation expert Arthur Rosenberg, who said the footage he has reviewed appears to show a plane which had experienced a stall.

"A stall is when the plane is not moving through the air fast enough, forward motion, to be able to maintain lift to stay in the air," Rosenberg was quoted as telling the network.

"The sound tells me there was something wrong with one or both engines," the aeronautical expert went on to explain.