SANTOS – A small airliner crashed in a residential area of ​​the city of Santos, on the coast of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. On board was Eduardo Campos, a Brazilian presidential candidate in the October elections. The plane crashed onto two houses and a gym. Of the people on board, nobody was saved: two pilots and three staff members.

The Cessna 560XL had departed about an hour before from the Santos Dumont airport in Rio de Janeiro and was heading towards the airport of Guarujà of Santos: the aircraft would have had problems when it was preparing to land, due to bad weather, and immediately after the control tower lost all radio contact.

Santos firefighters said initially that the incident caused at least 11 wounded, while the local prefecture reported four emergency hospitalized persons, but there is still no official and definitive death toll.

Campos, 49, former governor of the north-eastern state of Pernambuco, former ally of President Dilma Roussef, was given 10% in recent polls, the text placed in the presidential race.

After breaking up with Lula’s Workers’ Party, he announced his candidacy in April this year, appointing the environmental leader Marina Silva for the vice presidency, who was also previously in government with President Lula. La Silva was not on the plane crashed in Santos and, according to Brazilian media, she could be the new PSB candidate for the October elections.