Rosado
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BOEING 737-800 GOL 1907
MAO-BSB
GPS: FORMATO: UTM*UPS
22L0208201
UTM 8915058
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NormB
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A Brazilian airline passenger plane with 155 people on board disappeared over the Amazon jungle on Friday after colliding with a small plane, the company and news reports said.
The mayor of a remote town in the central state of Mato Grosso said the plane had crashed on a farm in Peixoto de Azevedo municipality. The report could not immediately be confirmed by other authorities.
Gol flight 1907, flying from the principle Amazon city of Manaus bound for the national capital Brasilia, disappeared after losing radar contact, the company said.
The head of Brazil's airports authority, Infraero, said the Gol aircraft collided with another smaller plane, Globo news agency reported.
The smaller plane, an executive jet, was able to land in a town called Serra do Cachimbo even though it suffered wing damage, Globo reported. Cachimbo is deep in the jungle about midway between Manaus and Brasilia.
Celso Gick, a spokesman in the Amazon region for Infraero, said the Boeing 737-800 was carrying 149 passengers and six crew members.
Gol 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 and lost contact around the town of Sao Felix do Xingu.
"From the information we have, the plane fell on Jarina farm," mayor Valter Mioto told Reuters. "Hospitals in the region are ready to receive the injured."
At Brasilia airport, dozens of friends and relatives, many weeping, gathered anxiously to await news.
Gol is a low-cost carrier that has expanded rapidly in recent years to become Brazil's number two airline and to offer flights to neighboring countries.
With its orange and white colors and stylized casual uniforms based on U.S. no-thrills carriers, it is an instantly recognizable brand in Brazil and one of its most successful new businesses.
Manaus is host to a number of foreign-owned manufacturing plants making motorcycles, computers and other goods in its duty free zone. It is also a base for tourism in the Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, and a headquarters for several environmental groups.
CBN radio said at least 20 passengers were employees of Yamaha Corp., the Japanese conglomerate.
The flight left Manaus at 2.36 pm local time (1836 GMT) but did not arrive in Brasilia at 6.12 pm (2112 GMT) as scheduled, a spokesman for the Manaus airport said.
"The Air Force is in the area of the collision," Infraero President Jose Carlos Pereira, said on radio. Five air force planes were searching for the missing Gol jet.
This is the first major crash involving Gol, which was founded in 2001. In the last major airline crash in Brazil, 33 people were killed when a plane belonging to regional carrier Rico Linhas Aereas crashed in the Amazon flying from Sao Paulo de Olivenca to Manaus on May 14, 2004.
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Fernando_Vilaca
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The probable location of the crash.
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Ronaldo_Serna_Quinto
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This place is wrong. It crashed 200 Km at southest of Peixoto de Azevedo city.
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mamendes
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The air collision was several km at Northwest, near the Serra dos Cachimbos. The Legacy landed in the militar air base in there, a nuclear testing area built in the late 80's.
Edited by mamendes (09/30/06 10:16 AM)
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BrunoBPM
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Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes informed correct location of crash:
10°29´ S - 53°15´ W
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The air collision was several km at Northwest, near the Serra dos Cachimbos. The Legacy landed in the militar air base in there, a nuclear testing area built in the late 80's.
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Niquele
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Think you got wrong coordinates!
"Segundo a FAB, a localização exata é de 10º 29' sul e 53º 15' oeste."
"According to FAB, the exact crash site location is 10º 29' south and 53º 15' west."
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asteinmetz
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Joe Sharkey, a sometime writer for the New York Times, was on board the bizjet that survived. He writes about it today's edition.
Here is a link to an earlier thread with location of the airbase where the surviving Legacy landed.
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NormB
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Quote:
Joe Sharkey, a sometime writer for the New York Times, was on board the bizjet that survived. He writes about it today's edition.
Here is a link to an earlier thread with location of the airbase where the surviving Legacy landed.
Wow they are the lucky few alright.
May the Victims RIP and our thoughts go out to all the families involved.
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danescombe
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The wreck and the reckoning--[survivors tale]
This man and six others miraculously survived Brazil’s worst air disaster in September, in which 154 perished. But their relief was short-lived: soon they were being held as prisoners, accused of causing the crash. Joe Sharkey relives the nightmare
Almost two months ago, I walked away from an air crash that nobody should have survived. Our corporate jet collided midair, 37,000ft over Brazil, with a much larger commercial airliner. While I and the six others on the jet lived to tell the tale, the 154 people on the Brazilian airliner did not: they plunged to horrible deaths in the Amazon jungle.
I was sitting beside the left wing of the jet, where the impact occurred. A month later, I still hear that bang when I awake abruptly and ponder how it is that I am alive and the others are dead. We literally did not know what had hit us, or what we had hit, when the impact came, just before 4pm on September 29. Thirty minutes later, in a damaged aeroplane with a deteriorating wing – losing speed, altitude and time – we made a harrowing landing at a military base in the Amazon that nobody on board knew was there until it heaved into view, a gash in the jungle.
We spent three hours at the military base before we found out we had collided with a Boeing 737-800 bound southeast for Brasilia on the same path, and at the same altitude, as us. We were bound northwest for Manaus, the Amazon river city. The plan was to spend the night, get up at dawn to board a boat to watch the sunrise on the Amazon, then re-board the jet for the trip home to New York City.
The corporate plane was a beauty, a shiny new blue-and-white $25m Legacy 600 jet with 13 seats. I was in Brazil to write about Embraer, the aircraft manufacturer. David J Rimmer, the vice-president of the New York charter-jet company ExcelAire, asked me if I wanted to hitch a ride home on the plane, which his company had just taken delivery of at Embraer’s plant in Sao Jose dos Campos, near Sao Paulo. We would board the plane on Friday afternoon, head northwest into the Amazon for the overnighter at Manaus, then continue onward to the US. Also on board would be Rimmer’s colleague Ralph Michielli and two marketing executives: Henry Yandle, an American, and Daniel Bachmann, the son of American medical missionaries who had grown up in an Amazon river town near Manaus and who had suggested the side trip. “Sure, I’m always up for an adventure,” I told Mr Rimmer. That turned out to be quite an understatement.
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