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Part of a Gol airlines Boeing 737-800 is
seen through trees of the Amazon jungle, a day after flight 1907 from
Manaus to Brasilia disappeared from radar, Sept. 30, 2006. (Xinhua/Reuters
Photo)
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BEIJING, Oct. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- None of the 155 people
survived on board Gol Airlines Flight 1907 that crashed a day earlier in the
Amazon's dense rainforest, local media reported Saturday.
The Brazilian passenger plane which crashed with 155
people onboard was likely to have plunged into the ground nose first, the
airport authority and Brazilian airline GOL said on Saturday.
It is the deadliest air crash in Brazil's history,
according to The Associated Press.
The wreckage of the plane was found 30 km north of the
Peixote Azevedo municipality, a remote area of Mato Grosso state with "difficult
access," Brazil's Globo TV reported.
Rescue helicopters and military troops were trying to
reach the densely forested crash site, said Jose Carlos Pereira, president of
the airport authority Infraero.
The Boeing-737 plane disappeared from the radar screen
after colliding with an executive jet in the Amazon region.
The small plane managed to land with a damaged wing.
The Gol flight 1907 left the northern Manaus city in the
afternoon but did not arrive in Brasilia as scheduled, Globo reported.
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(Agencies)
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Officials say a Gol Boeing 737 similar
to this one disappeared after colliding with a smaller
plane.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Members of the staff of Brazilian
airline Gol wait at a check-in counter in Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo
Sept. 29, 2006. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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