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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 imagined he was at the set of a Hollywood disaster film when right in front of his taxi, an airplane crossed six lanes of the Avenida Washington Luis. He and his passengers fled on foot.
Airbus A-320 operated by the Brazilian airline TAM, skidded off the runway after touching down and collided with cars and through a gas station before slamming into a TAM maintenance building. 180 deaths were passengers on the Airbus jet. Fifteen more deaths included Tam employees in the building.
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Luiz Santos who barely escaped the explosion, said “The airplane was coming right at me. I could hear the sound of the engines and then it exploded.” His windows and the back end of his truck were shattered, but Santos and his passenger escaped.
Flight JJ 3054 left Porto Alegre at 5:16 p.m. and landed at Congonhas two hours later. The plane apparently touched down too far down the runway.
Accidents have made flying in South America dangerous to contemplate. Flight controllers are overworked, underpaid and untrained, and rely on aging and defective radar technology in the Amazon.
In September, a Gol airlines Boeing 737 collided with a private jet over the Amazon, killing 154. That investigation is ongoing.
The country’s air travel infrastructure has been unable to keep up with Brazil’s fast economic growth.
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In July, a smoking laptop in a passenger’s bag led to the evacuation of a plane awaiting takeoff. Last year, a flight made an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida, after a battery caught fire in an overhead bin.
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In 1967, the CIA’s A-12 “Oxcart” spy plane, a predecessor to the SR-71 Blackbird, flew high-risk reconnaissance missions over Vietnam.
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Honolulu EMS said that the flight attendants had shown symptoms of “nausea and disturbed coordination” from the smell, local media reported.
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Bill Reeves has never told the full story of his 43-hour struggle to survive in the Colorado mountains.
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When the athlete boarded the flight, she was surprised to find that someone was already sitting in the seat she paid for.
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DULLES, Va. (DC News Now) –People from across the DMV gathered at Dulles International Airport on Saturday, raising $580,000 for the Special Olympics in the annual Dulles Day Plane Pull. The …
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The Yellowstone County Detention Facility “Mile High Cell Block Five” team competes in the 2024 East Plane Pull fundraiser for Special Olympics Montana at the Billings Airport. Teams competed to
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The plane, a type of experimental aircraft that resembled an extensively modified Piper PA-12, crashed on a road near Finger Lake on Saturday morning, the NTSB’s Alaska chief said.
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BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport reports a minor plane crash at the airport on Saturday. The crash happened off the end of the general aviation runway and involved a small single-engine plane.
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Later this month, a unique event in South St. Paul will challenge teams to pull a World War II bomber and raise money for Minnesota veterans.
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Investigators looking into the cause of a fatal plane crash last month near McGrath have recovered the wreckage and will soon begin examining it for evidence of mechanical problems.
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Two people have escaped serious injury following a plane crash that happened on a golf course outside of Centennial Airport in the Denver, Colorado area.
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Heart Aerospace unveils its first full-scale demostrator hybrid-electric aircraft, 30-seat aircraft can fly 200km on battery, first flight in 2025.
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Google Flights released its 2024 travel trends, including the best time to buy plane tickets for fall and holiday travel.
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The baseball star died after flying on a poorly-maintained and overloaded DC-7 freighter.
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COTTONWOOD — Marilyn Benkendorf was reading the Bible and getting ready to go to church when an airplane crashed into her yard on Spur Drive near the airport on early
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Owen Renaud graduated from South Hamilton High last spring. On Friday, his loved ones, close friends and community members came together to honor him.
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