A passenger jet crashed and burst into flames after landing in heavy rain at Brazil's busiest airport in Sao Paulo on Tuesday.
Up to 200 people were feared dead, with more than 170 people aboard and some victims on the ground at Congonhas airport.
Brazilian airline TAM, owner and operator of the aircraft, said 176 passengers and crew were aboard the Airbus A320 flying from Porto Alegre in southern Brazil to Sao Paulo, when it lost control on landing and skidded off the wet runway.
Sao Paulo state Governor Jose Serra said there is no hope of finding alive any one on board.
Rescue authorities announced on Wednesday that they had recovered 25 charred bodies from what was left of the plane and 15 people who were on the ground either died at the scene or in hospitals.
Douglas Ferrari from Brazilian Association of Intensive Care elaborates.
 "We always have the hope of survivors, something we can do for these people. But the situation was very bad and the firemen couldn't enter inside the plane. They're trying to work in the building. At that place, from what I could see, nearly 25 victims were removed."
The crash was Brazil's second major air disaster in 12 months following a collision in September between a Gol airline Boeing 737 and an executive jet over the Amazon rainforest.
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