 Brazil's air force has located the wreckage of a passenger plane which disappeared over the Amazon rainforest. The Boeing 737, which had 155 people on board, was flying from Manaus to the capital, Brasilia, when it vanished from radar screens. It was found in a remote area of the rural state of Mato Grosso. "It would be very difficult for anyone to survive such a crash," Jose Carlos Pereira, president of the Brazilian airport authority, told journalists. "Our experience shows that when one cannot find the fuselage relatively intact and when the wreckage is concentrated in a relatively small area, the chances of finding any survivors are practically non-existent," he said. The plane was operated by budget airline Gol. ...
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