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Brazilian plane lost over Amazon Brazilian plane missing in 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. A search is underway for a Brazilian passenger plane with at least 150 people on board that has gone missing over the Amazon rainforest.
Brazil's low-cost airline, Gol, said it was trying to locate the plane after it went missing from its radar screens. Air force jets are searching the densely forested region for wreckage of the Boeing 737.
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. Aviation authorities believe it struck an executive jet, which was then able to land in Para state.
Flight 1907 left the city of Manaus on Friday but failed to land in Brasilia. The Gol airlines flight left the Amazonian city of Manaus on Friday but failed to arrive 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 passenger plane been due to arrive at 1812 local time (2112 GMT), before continuing to Rio de Janeiro's Antonio Jobim International Airport.
The Gol plane collided with a smaller, Brazilian-made Legacy aircraft which suffered wing damage before landing, Globo news agency reported. Brazil's civil aviation authority said the plane lost contact with air traffic control at 1450 local time (1950 GMT) around the remote, jungle town of Sao Felix do Araguaia.
Mr Pereira said a local farmer reported seeing a large, low-flying plane. Mid-air collision
Manaus is a major city in the heart of the rainforest some 1,700m (2700 km) north-west of Rio de Janeiro. The mayor of a remote Amazon town in the central state of Mato Grosso told Reuters news agency he believed the airliner had crashed on a farm in the area.
"Hospitals in the region are ready to receive the injured," he said.
Globo news agency says the airliner collided with a smaller, Brazilian-made Legacy aircraft which suffered wing damage before landing in the Cachimbo mountain range in Para state.
The Estado news agency reported that the Legacy was piloted by a US citizen who had taken off from the Sao Jose dos Campos airport near Sao Paulo.
Ramon Bueno, an aviation official in Sao Paulo, told Estado that the mid-air collision was "inexplicable."
He said that the two planes were "very modern and have anti-collision systems, which sound an alarm to alert the plane to any obstacle".
Manaus is the capital of Amazonas state in the heart of the Amazon rainforest some 1,700m (2700 km) north-west of Rio de Janeiro.
The flight between Manaus and Rio is popular with foreign tourists but there was no immediate word on the nationalities of those aboard.
Gol, a low-cost airline, has expanded rapidly in recent years to become Brazil's number two carrier.Gol, a low-cost airline, has expanded rapidly in recent years to become Brazil's number two carrier.
This is the first major crash involving Gol, which was founded in 2001.