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Plane Crash in Dam
The Vans RV-9A (a single-engine experimental aircraft) was being flown from Americana city by its owner with a female passenger aboard when it struck power lines and crashed by Ester Mill Dam in Cosmópolis in São Paulo, Brazil. Both people aboard died at the scene. The plane crashed in a remote area with difficult... »
Sao Paulo International Airport’s Runway Closed
Sao Paulo International Airport’s main runway will remain closed for two months while construction crews rebuild the tarmac to improve safety. 13 million reais ($6.4 million) will be spent to repave the runway, Infraero announced on its Web site. The repaved runway will have grooves to prevent water from accumulating on the tarmac. »
Brazil’s Call for Change: A320 Crash
One day after a TAM Airlines Airbus A320 crashed in Brazil, killing at least 189 people, the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations chimed in on Wednesday, “Runways around the world have inadequate overrun areas.” The airbus was trying to land on a wet runway at Sao Paulo Cagonhas Airport, and when they... »
BRAZIL’S WORST-EVER AIR DISASTER
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact Photographer Alan Olivieri BRAZIL’S WORST-EVER AIR DISASTER 200 Feared Dead in Sao Paulo Crash At least 195 people were killed in Brazil’s worst plane crash, a product of a country with an inadequate air travel network that has been plagued by havoc. Witness Paulo Carol... »
Almost 200 Feared Dead in Air Crash
Brazilian officials now fear at least 195 people are dead from Tuesday night’s jetliner crash in Sao Paulo. The TAM airlines Airbus-320 was on a domestic flight to Sao Paulo from the southern city of Porto Alegre when it skidded off the end of the rain-slicked runway, crashed into a gas station and a... »
