No sign of survivors from Brazil plane

BRASILIA, Brazil - Military helicopters lowered a rescue team by rope Saturday into the remote Amazon jungle site where an airliner slammed into the ground, but authorities held out little hope of finding survivors among the 155 people on board.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061001/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_plane_missing

Missing airliner with 155 aboard located, say Brazilian authorities
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/80430.asp

A Gol airlines jet that was missing with 155 people was discovered on Saturday, crashed in the Amazon jungle region. Officials said they were unlikely to find survivors. The president of Brazil's airport authority, Jose Carlos Pereira, said two air force helicopter pilots spotted the plane's wreckage near the Jarina cattle ranch, kilometers (1,090 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo in the state of Mato Grosso. ``Our experience shows that when one cannot find the fuselage relatively intact and when the wreckage is concentrated in a relatively small area, the chances of finding any survivors are practically nonexistent,'''' he said. Pereira said the jungle where the plane crashed is so thick that authorities will be forced to use helicopters to lower search and rescue crews by rope to the forest floor. The manager of the 20,000 hectare (49,500 acre) ranch said the plane may have crashed inside neighboring the Xingu Indian reservation, a 2.8 million-hectare (6.92 million-acre) area. ``We heard a loud explosion and some of our employees saw a plane flying low,'''' ranch manager Milton Picalho said by phone. ``Judging from the direction the noise came from, I would say it crashed inside the reservation.'''' Gol airlines Flight 1907 vanished on Friday after leaving the jungle city of Manaus en route for Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro. The flight between Manaus and Rio is popular with foreign tourists but there was no immediate word on the nationalities of those aboard. The worst previous air accident in Brazil occurred in 1982 when a Vasp 747 crashed in the northeastern city of Fortaleza, killing 137 people. The cause of the crash was unclear.

Information mess up it was a VASP 727 not a 747

HAWK21M wrote:

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the_380 wrote:

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:### Seems the TCAS didnt work or something....

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Any Link to that Statement.Why do you state TCAS as a cause.

regds

MEL