A Boeing 737 passenger airliner is missing over Brazil, a Gol Airline spokesman confirms.

CNN ^ | 29 september 2006 | CNN

[Btrp113Cav]

Just breaking on CNN head line banner.

[Velveeta]

BAND Broadcasting Network now reports the Legacy aircraft may be involved with ilegal drug traffic or has been flying ilegally. They said the crew are been withheld on the Local Air Base at Cachimbos Hills, on the Southern parts of Para State.
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/3014259/ post #76

[cgk]

Prayers for the missing.

[Jeff Head]

Hello series...I'm hugh.

[LikeLight]

Now saying wreckage may have been located (per poster on airliners.net)

[silentknight]

That is weird. I had the most vivid dream on Wednesday Night about a plane crashing in the jungle. Horrible dream...woke up in a sweat. Really freaked me out.

[Jeff Head]

I am hearing they have located wreckage now. If there are survivors it will be a miracle.

Wierd about the dream. Any details (other than a jet airliner crashing in the jungle) match as yet?

[Lokibob]

Are you coming to the psychic convention?

(If you have to ask where and when, I'd guess you are not).

[phoenix0468]

He was channel surfing up to Fox News and caught the News Alert, whatcha thing?!?

[do the dhue]

I had the most vivid dream on Wednesday Night about a plane crashing in the jungle. Horrible dream

Hey Buddy, ol' pal, have you had any dreams about the Lottery?

[Purrcival]

Omigosh, it was lost somewhere in the Amazon basin. That is REALLY not good! How will they find it?

[Purrcival]

Brazilian airliner (Gol, I think). I don't know about the origin and destination, unfortunately.

[Purrcival]

I'm hoping and praying for a miracle. It's already a miracle if they found the wreckage. I have no idea HOW they would go about doing that, with the jungle canopy blocking aerial view.

[Velveeta]

Praying for a miracle.

[RayChuang88]

The aircraft that collided over Switzerland about four years ago both had TCAS, but the pilot of one followed the TCAS direction while the other followed the controller's contrary direction.

There's been a lot of problems with ATC around Switzerland in the past due to the fact the airspace and airports in Switzerland encroach on the ATC controls in Germany, France, Austria and Italy. That's why the Europeans are going to Eurocontrol single ATC control and why Zurich's airport drastically changed their ATC procedures to prevent problems with German airspace.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

FOX-NEWS,,,They are now backing off the "Collision" idea,,

[NinoFan]

What do they think it was?

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Never said,,,so,,,?
Lotta Moozzi down there,,,

[Blowtorch]

This happened on Bushs' watch.

Yeah it's Bush's fault too... Bush knew..., etc. Every FR thread seems to have some self-proclaimed jokester quipping the old sarcastic "It's Bush's fault" material and it was already old two years ago. Can you come up with something new already. If not, I"ll make a joke and say it's Bush's fault that you couldn't find rehashed material.

[Moose4]

I can understand them backing off the mid-air collision idea. An Embraer Legacy 600 is a large business jet that's based off the ERJ-135 commuter airliner; the ERJ-135 seats 37 people normally (the Legacy has a plush interior for about 12-14). A loaded 737-800 has around three times the mass of that Legacy and is at least twice as big in all dimensions. If a 737-800 struck a Legacy, unless the Legacy was incredibly lucky and the 737-800 incredibly unlucky, there wouldn't be a crew left on the Legacy to detain somewhere. Both planes would have gone down.

Both planes are also pretty much state-of-the-art, with glass cockpits and full TCAS (collision avoidance systems).

It's possible there was a mid-air, though, certainly. It would be a big coincidence to have that 737 disappear and have another airplane make an emergency landing nearby in the same general timeframe.

}:-)4

[ImaGraftedBranch]

full = fool. wanted to do this for years and this is my first chance....

(smile)