Posted on 09/29/2006 5:31:02 PM PDT by Btrp113Cav
Just breaking on CNN head line banner.
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That's not good.
oh dear.
do you have any details about whether it was a domestic or international flight?
Hope everything turns out fine. Else, prayers for the victims and their families.
Ping!
Aircraft likely to be a Boeing 737-800SFP.
Lord have mercy
Reports are of a midair collision between the 737 and aircraft belonging to Legacy.
Ping
Babelfish translation:
http://noticias.correioweb.com.br/materias.php?id=2684013&sub=Brasil
Airplane of GOL with destination Brasilia disappears in Pará
Of The CorreioWeb
29/09/2006
21h01-the National Agency of Civil Aviation (Anac) confirmed the disappearance of a passengers airplane of Gol in this friday. Flight 1907 left in the beginning of the afternoon of Manaus and must have fond of the International airport of Brasilia to 18h10. Boeing 737-300 had 140 passengers more the crew.
The aircraft disappeared in the immediacy of Félix of the Araguaia, in Amazon. In accordance with radio CBN, it after disappeared to collide against a North American aircraft of small transport, that already arrived its destination. The Gol confirmed only the disappearance.
The Infraero informed that possible electronic searches to identify aid order already had started.
It waits more information for the CorreioWeb
Oh dear. Prayers..
Breaking news story from MSNBC; it says that two planes collided with each other.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15067143/
Prayer bump
http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/interna/0,,OI1166700-EI306,00.html
155 on board. Went down in the amazon.
http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/interna/0,,OI1166661-EI306,00.html
Reports mid-air collision between the 737 and an Embraer Legacy
SAO PAULO, Brazil, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Brazilian airline Gol said on Friday it was trying to locate a passenger plane that disappeared from the radar.
The company said the flight had 155 passengers on board. It was not immediately know how many crew members were on board.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N29226741.htm
did I interpret that correctly, the Embriar was Brazilian AF?
Ping and prayers.
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