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BRAZIL
Plane crash kills all on board
Brazil's Air Force said the cockpit voice and data recorders from an airliner that crashed in the Amazon jungle, killing all 155 people on board, have been found by workers searching the wreckage for bodies.
GOL airlines Flight 1907, a Boeing 737-800, went down Sept. 29 after clipping a Brazilian-made Legacy executive jet, and investigators were trying to determine how two new aircraft equipped with the latest anti-collision technology collided in midair.
While the GOL flight slammed into the ground deep in the Amazon rain forest, the damaged Legacy with seven people on board landed safely at a nearby air force base.
The Japan Times Weekly: Oct. 7, 2006 (C) All rights reserved
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