Dashed dreams of family on doomed Brazil flight

Boarding Voepass flight 2283 with her four-year-old son and her mother, Josgleidys Gonzalez had embarked on a long trip that was to take them to her native Venezuela and then onward to Colombia.

But her dreams and those of everyone else on board - were dashed when the plane crashed this week in Brazil's Sao Paulo state.

The family, who had emigrated to Brazil, was among the 58 passengers and four crew members on the plane on Friday when it dropped from the sky and burst into flames in the town of Vinhedo.

Everyone on board was killed.

Gonzalez was 25 and her baby Joslan, just a few months old, when they arrived four years ago in Cascavel, a city of 350 000 in the southern state of Parana.

There she found work as a supermarket cashier, said her Brazilian friend Thaiza Evangelista.