SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- A helicopter carrying Brazil's Senate president and a gubernatorial candidate crashed just before landing Saturday, but nobody aboard was injured, a spokesman said.

The helicopter carrying Senate President Renan Calheiros, a candidate for governor in the northeastern state of Alagoas, Teotonio Vilela, and two other people went down in the city of Arapiraca, some 1,150 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. "It was just a scare," Calheiros' spokesman Douglas de Felice said. "There was damage to the helicopter but everyone walked out of it unharmed."

Felice said the helicopter had technical difficulties about 30 feet above the ground as it prepared to land in Arapiraca.

The incident happened a day after a Gol airlines jet carrying 155 people crashed in the Amazon jungle. Officials said survivors were unlikely in that incident.