Brazil plane plunged nose first
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - The Brazilian passenger plane that crashed with 155 people on board likely plunged into the ground nose first, the president of airport authority Infraero said on Saturday, meaning there is little chance that anyone survived.
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A TAP-Air Portugal airliner dived sharply to avoid a mid-air collision with a smaller aircraft just before landing on the mid-Atlantic Azores islands, slightly injuring 33 people.
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KARACHI: Aviation authorities were yesterday investigating after a jetliner dipped &quot;like a diver&quot;, fearing collision with another passenger plane at 37,000 feet (11,200m) over eastern Pakistan, injuring several people and leaving others in shock.
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A test rocket which Brazil successfully launched on Saturday provided reassurance to the countryâs space programme 14 months after a more powerful one exploded before lift-off killing 21 people.
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Braving queasy stomachs, a team of French doctors took to the skies Wednesday for the first operation on a human being in zero-gravity conditions, removing a cyst from the arm of a man as the aircraft soared and dived to create weightlessness.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Rescuers on Sunday cleared the thick jungle around the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed in the Amazon with 155 people on board, opening the way for teams to begin retrieving bodies.
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SAO PAULO -- A radar failure over the Amazon forced Brazil to turn back or ground a string of international flights yesterday, deepening a national aviation crisis just hours after the president unveiled safety measures prompted by the country's deadliest air disaster.
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(Houston-WABC, November 22, 2004) - A plane that crashed today in Houston killing three people was was on its way to pick up former President George Bush and take him South America.
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Rescue workers on Sunday hunted through the wreckage of a Brazilian jetliner that crashed in the Amazon rain forest, likely killing all 155 people on board in what would be Brazil's worst air disaster.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Airforce search planes found on Saturday the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed a day earlier in Amazon jungle with 155 people on board and there were no reports of survivors.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilian police on Friday charged two U.S. pilots with endangering air safety in the crash of a Brazilian airliner over the Amazon rain forest in which all 154 people on board were killed.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - 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.
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BUENOS AIRES, July 18 -- Brazil will investigate whether recent construction projects meant to improve runway conditions at South America's busiest airport might have contributed to Tuesday's TAM airlines crash, which killed at least 189 people.
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Authorities said Sunday there were no survivors among the 155 people aboard the Brazilian jetliner that crashed deep in the Amazon jungle, as rescue workers began to pull bodies out of the twisted wreckage.
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Brazil's deadliest jetliner crash was an accident foretold. For months, air safety concerns have been aired in congressional hearings, and pilots and traffic controllers have worried for years about the short, slippery runways at Brazil's busiest airport.
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BRAZIL RIO DE JANEIRO -- A federal judge indicted two US pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers yesterday in Brazil's worst air disaster. A Boeing jet plunged into the Amazon rain forest in September after crashing in mid-air with an executive jet, killing 154. Pilots Joseph Lepore, 42, of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Jan Paladino, 34, of Westhampton Beach, ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A Brazilian court yesterday ordered police to seize the passports of two American pilots whose executive jet clipped a commercial plane in midair last week, causing the plane to crash in the Amazon jungle and kill 155 people, a spokeswoman said. A Brazilian newspaper reported that the Brazilian-made Legacy executive jet, which was carrying seven Americans, ...