Brazil plane crashes over Amazon with 155 aboard
Reuters, Sao Paulo
A Brazilian airline passenger plane with 155 people on board disappeared over the Amazon jungle and was believed to have crashed, local officials and news reports said. The brand-new Boeing 737-800 operated by Brazilian low-cost carrier Gol disappeared Friday afternoon after losing radar contact during a flight from the principal Amazon city of Manaus to the national capital, Brasilia, the company 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. "From the information we have, the plane fell on Jarina farm," Mayor Valter Mioto said in an interview. "Hospitals in the region are ready to receive the injured." The head of Brazil's airports authority, Infraero, said the Gol aircraft collided with another, smaller plane, Globo news agency reported. The report could not be confirmed.
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