[serensilver]

A plane carrying 170 people has crashed into a petrol station in Sao Paolo, Brazil

[lily.]

Where'd you get that?

[serensilver]

on sky news!

[CassetteFinger]

Really is everyone dead

[Jack]

That's terrible. Was it a terrorist attack?

[MrXmasXmas]

Just seen this

From Sky News

All 176 passengers aboard a Brazilian airliner are feared dead after it skidded off a wet runway, crossed a busy road and ploughed into a petrol station.

At least another 15 people on the ground were killed during the crash landing in driving rain at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport - the busiest in Brazil.

While the death toll has not been confirmed, the state governor said it was impossible for anyone to have survived the crash.

"I was told that the temperature inside the plane was 1,000 degrees, so the chances of there being any survivors are practically nil," said Jose Serra.

The TAM airlines Airbus-32 had flown from the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre when on landing it careered over a road and slammed into a hangar next to a petrol station.

Elias Rodrigues Jesus, a TAM worker, said he saw the jet explode in between a petrol station and an airport building.

"All of a sudden I heard a loud explosion, and the ground beneath my feet shook," he said.

"I looked up and I saw a huge ball of fire, and then I smelled the stench of kerosene and sulphur."

Just a day earlier two planes slipped off the same runway, criticised for being too short, though no one was injured in either incident.

Financial Times journalist Jonathan Wheatley told Sky News the runway had only just reopened after work had been carried out following fears over its safety during wet weather.

Officials recovered a number of bodies from what was left of the plane, while the 15 people who were found on the ground either died at the scene or in hospital.

The disaster comes 10 months after a collision between a Gol Aerolinhas Inteligentes SA Boeing 737 and an executive jet over the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

All 154 people on the passenger jet died, while the executive jet landed safely.

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[Lauren]

It's meant to have been warned about before... the airport in question has had complaints against it cos of the way the runway is it doesn't drain water in heavy rain and the accident happened during heavy rain.

[Ruth*Star]

It's Terrible , A friend of my dad has lost 3 people in the crash.

[CassetteFinger]

Thats sad so everyone died i dont trust air planes couldent get on one must be a boat if its to go anywhere.

[Chrizzle]

Im so sorry Ruth

And this news is terrible

[Lauren]

Originally posted by rice_square
Thats sad so everyone died i dont trust air planes couldent get on one must be a boat if its to go anywhere.

You're safer on a plane than you are in your own home, actual fact.

[Z]

Yeah, statistically, but then lots of things can go wrong in a house, only two things can really go wrong on a plane :/


The two things being that it fails in mid air, or it crashes.


It's a terrible tragedy

[Lauren]

Originally posted by Z
Yeah, statistically, but then lots of things can go wrong in a house, only two things can really go wrong on a plane :/


The two things being that it fails in mid air, or it crashes.

And the likelihood of either of those things happening are... ?

[Nowhere]

I'm supposed to be getting on a plane at the end of the year to travel to America!..I'm utterly terrified. I've just seen too many disaster movies.. Oh and Lauren,I can't believe that's fact! ..Does make me feel better though..

[Lauren]

Originally posted by Nowhere
I'm supposed to be getting on a plane at the end of the year to travel to America!..I'm utterly terrified. I've just seen too many disaster movies.. Oh and Lauren,I can't believe that's fact! ..Does make me feel better though..

You'll be fine Think of how many planes you see in the sky everyday, it must be thousands and thats just over the UK - now consider how many you have heard have crashed?... I can't think of many over the last 5 years.