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Brazilian plane lost over Amazon | Brazilian plane lost over Amazon |
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A search is underway for a Brazilian passenger plane with at least 150 people on board that has gone missing in the country's Amazon region. | |
Brazil's low-cost 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 Cachimbo mountain range in Para state. | |
Flight 1907 left the city of Manaus on Friday but failed to land 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. | 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 before landing, Globo news agency reported. | |
Mr Pereira said a local farmer reported seeing a large, low-flying plane. | Mr Pereira said a local farmer reported seeing a large, low-flying plane. |
Manaus is a major city in the heart of the rainforest some 1,700m (2700 km) north-west of Rio de Janeiro. | |
Gol, a low-cost airline, has expanded rapidly in recent years to become Brazil's number two carrier. |