Posts Tagged ‘Brazil airplane crash’
Demands to Shut Down Congonhas Airport
8:02 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil · Comments Off
20 Jul 2007
Prosecutors investigating the cause of “this week’s Brazilian airline tragedy, sought a court order to shut down the nation’s busiest airport until the cause of the incident could be determined. Such of a move would certainly impact air travel not just in Brazil but in South America.
“It is necessary to temporarily paralyze the activities at the Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo until a complete renovation of both of its runways can be completed and there is certainty that they are fully secure,” prosecutors said in a statement.
The runways in the airport are shorter than most other international airport runways by at least 1,000 or so feet. Additionally there were concerns prior to the crash that wet runways posed a serious problem.
Via / Fox News
Brazil Airliner Crash Leaves at Least 200 Dead
10:06 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil · Comments Off
18 Jul 2007Brazil’s busiest airport, Sao Paulo’s Congonhas, was the scene of the nation’s second major airline disaster within the last year. An Airbus A320 airliner crashed into a gas station and busy cargo terminal after skidding off the wet from rain landing strip and exploded in flames yesterday. At least 200 people are thought to be dead. 45 bodies were pulled from the TAM Linhas Aereas wreckage and speculation is that there were no survivors of the 176 people on board. The remaining casualties occurred on the ground. There were 170 passengers and 6 crew members on the plane.
Flames from the crash spread to neighboring buildings. Government officials said that at least 11 people were being treated for injuries at hospitals, where three died.
In September, 154 people were killed when a Brazilian Boeing 737 clipped wings with a private jet and crashed in the Amazon jungle in what was the country’s worst air accident.
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