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Brazilian airliner disappears

FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
edited September 2006 in A Moving Train
Breaking news.

Checking Reuters, here...
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  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) -- Brazilian airline Gol said Friday it was trying to locate a passenger plane that disappeared from radar and failed to arrive at its destination.

    The head of Brazil's airports authority, Infraero, said the Gol plane collided with a smaller aircraft in the Amazon region, the Globo news agency reported.

    The smaller plane, an executive jet, landed with a damaged wing, Globo reported.

    Gol flight 1907 left Manaus in the afternoon but did not arrive in Brasilia as scheduled, a spokesman for the Manaus airport said.

    The company said the flight had 155 passengers on board but made no mention of crew members. Brazil's civil aviation authority said the plane was transporting 155 people.

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/09/29/brazil.plane.reut/index.html
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Thanks. Well, it's nightfall now, in the Amazon? Let's hope communication is made, fast.
  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Brazil's Defense Minister Waldir Pires told radio Bandnews there were "more than 150" people on the plane.

    The jetliner had been scheduled to make a stop in Brasilia before heading to Rio's Antonio Tom Jobim International Airport. Manaus is a major river city in the heart of the Amazon rainforest some 1,700 miles northwest of Rio.

    Brazilian airport authority President Jose Carlos Pereira said the air force was searching for the jet in a densely forested region. The Brazilian airforce said in a joint statement with the federal aviation and airport authorities that five planes had been sent to search for the missing aircraft. But it was not immediately clear whether searches had begun or would start at daylight.

    Pereira said in an interview with CBN radio that a local farmer reported seeing a large plane flying low.





    If it was flying low, I hope it landed safely somehow...
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