Major plane crash in Brazil

[malaise]

Airbus crashes after landing in Sao Paolo- massive fire - crashed into a gas station. WTF! Tam Airways A320. 175 passengers flying from Southern Brazil -Porto Alegro.
There are survivors.

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[Swamp Rat]

1. OMG!!!!!!

:cry:

vou ligar minha familia agora!!

[malaise]

2. Thought of you

Hope everyone escaped. Looks pretty bad -MSNBC had coverage.
Hope your family and friends are OK :cry:

[Swamp Rat]

3. I am on the phone now

All 170 passengers dead according to Record TV, Brasília.

More casualties because it hit a building during on arrival... it is on fire.

[malaise]

4. Damn MSNBC said it crashed on landing and

hit a gas station. They were showing it still on fire. What a tragedy.:cry: :cry: If it was on take off it's much worse.

[Swamp Rat]

5. I edited my post above

Someone told me the wrong thing in English, so I asked again in portuguese.

[malaise]

9. latest

MSNBC discussing right now -bad weather looks like the cause.
Building on the ground stores gas building exploded.
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-07-17T230229Z_01_N17263598_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-BRAZIL-CRASH-COL.XML

[Swamp Rat]

13. The whole building is on fire

Firemen on the groundare battling a huge fire. Eyewitnesses say everyone is dead inside.

10 years ago in July 1997, a similar accident involving the same airline.

[malaise]

14. This looks pretty bad

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6786637,00.html

[malaise]

15. Someone on CNN said two people in the building survived.

Geuss we'll have details in a few minutes.

[Swamp Rat]

16. I hope

O8)

[malaise]

18. I hope too brother

What a tragedy.

[malaise]

21. More

"TAM flight number 3054, an airbus A320, that left Porto Alegre at 5.16pm destined for Congonhas airport (SP), had an accident during landing at the airport in Sao Paulo.

"At this moment we can't determine the extension of the damage or the possible injuries suffered by the occupants of the airplane.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=279285

[Madspirit]

6. Damn...tragedy...so sad.

This is really sad, all those lives. :cry:

Lee

[Sequoia]

7. Live footage on CNN website.

I have friends that live there.

[malaise]

10. on CNN now as well n/t

[EFerrari]

8. Oh no!

[malaise]

11. Not a gas station

Building owned by TAM across the highway. A massive tragedy this.

[EFerrari]

12. Those poor people.

Terrible. Doug's family is there and quite a few friends.

[Swamp Rat]

17. The runway was under construction.

It lacked a coating to prevent this type of accident, which they planned to fix at the end of this week.

[malaise]

19. Good grief

Give thanks that most of the TAM staff in the building would have left for home already. What's even more troubling is that it skated across a busy highway before hitting the building.

[blogslut]

20. Those poor people

Keep us posted on the updates.

[malaise]

22. No good news here

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2094757.ece

[EFerrari]

23. Thanks, malaise.

:(

[malaise]

24. Update coming up on Dan Abrams after the break n/t

[Madspirit]

25. k&r...n/t

[malaise]

27. Damn up to 200 people died

on the aircraft and on the ground.

What an awful death. :cry: :cry:

That judge who reopened this airport after flights were suspended has a lot of explaining to do.

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[Madspirit]

31. That is such a lot of people

This is just heartbreaking. :cry:

Lee

[malaise]

34. Turn on Anderson Cooper

at least 200 confirmed dead. A truly horrible tragedy. How amazing that the aircraft crashed into the company building.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

26. That is horrible. Tragic that this happens on the ground.

Airbuses do NOT inspire confidence in me. They are unwieldy and IMO much less safe than any Boeing plane.

[malaise]

28. That's not true

the A320 has a very good record. Rain, short runway and previous problems at the airport look like the problem here. Another aircraft skid there yesterday. This is horrible.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

29. Exactly. People seem over-eager to blame Airbus. I wonder why. -nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

32. I have had horrible experiences flying in Airbuses

But the message here needs to be concern for the tragic loss of life -- sorry that I digressed.

[Catherine Vincent]

30. Sigh!

Such a terrible tragedy. :(

[Feron]

33. How horrible

My thoughts go out to them. :(