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| A Brazilian passenger plane with at least 140 people on board has gone missing in the Amazon region. | |
| Brazilian airline Gol said it was trying to locate the plane after it went missing from its radar screens. | Brazilian airline Gol said it was trying to locate the plane after it went missing from its radar screens. |
| Globo news agency reported the Boeing 737 had struck an executive jet, which was then able to land in the Serra de Caximbo region of Para state. | |
| Flight 1907 left the city of Manaus on Friday afternoon, but failed to arrive as scheduled in Brasilia. | |
| Speaking to Brazilian radio station, CBN, the president of the country's aviation regulator Infraero, Jose Carlos Pereira, said the air force was searching for the jet in a densely forested region. | |
| The Gol plane collided with a smaller, Brazilian-made Legacy aircraft which suffered wing damage, Globo news agency reported. | |
| Mr Pereira said a local farmer reported seeing a large, low-flying plane. |