Plane Carrying 176 Crashes Into Gas Station In Brazil
Posted July 17, 2007 12:00 pm.
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A plane carrying 176 people met with a tragic and fiery end Tuesday when it crashed into a gas station after landing at Sao Paulo’s airport.
Few details were initially available following the nightmarish crash, but a spokesman for the airport said the Airbus-320 skidded off the road and crashed into a fuelling station outside Congonhas Airport.
The TAM Airlines flight was coming from the sourthern city of Porto Alegre.
The crash comes less than a year after the deadliest air disaster in the South American nation’s history, a midair collision in September between a Gol Aerolinhas Inteligentes SA Boeing 737 and an executive jet over the Amazon rainforest. More than 150 people on board that flight perished.
The governor of Sao Paulo state said all were feared dead.
“I was told that the temperature inside the plane was 1,000 degrees, so the chances of there being any survivors are practically nil,” Gov. Jose Serra grimly stated at the airport.
