[updated:LAST EDITED ON 09-01-03 AT 05:21 PM (GMT)]Plane missing over Peru with more than 40 people on board… Details to come.
From http://www.cnn.com
Not another one?? 🙁
By: A330Crazy - 12th January 2003 at 23:55
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 12-01-03 AT 11:56 PM (GMT)]Missing Peruvian airliner found with no survivors
LIMA, Jan. 11 (Xinhuanet) — Peruvian rescue teams on Saturday spotted the wreckage of an airliner of the state-run TANS that crashed in the north of the country with 46 people aboard, and rescuers said there were no survivors.
The Fokker-28, with 42 passengers and four crew members on board, was found by an air force helicopter 16 kilometers southwest of Chachapoyas, the destination of the TANS flight.
Pieces of the airliner were scattered over the mountain area atan altitude of 3,300 meters.
Peruvian Air Force (FAP) Col. Juan Rodriguez, who was in charge of the rescue operations, said there were no survivors.
The twin-engine airplane disappeared Thursday four minutes before it was going to land in Chachapoyas, Amazonas state, 950 kilometers northeast of Lima. The TANS Airlines rented out the plane to FAP.
It took off from Lima, made a stop in Chiclayo before proceeding to Chachapoyas, near an archaeological area frequented by tourists.
Thick fog and heavy rains hampered the search and rescue operations. The plane lost contact with the control tower before hitting a 3,800-meter high mountain. Enditem
By: T5 - 11th January 2003 at 20:51
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Yet again, more tragic news to end what has been a bad already. How can these things all happen at once?
By: Ren Frew - 11th January 2003 at 20:37
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It was found today (Sat) no surviviors sadly.
By: A330Crazy - 10th January 2003 at 18:48
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Still no luck on it being found! 🙁 Bad weather is hampering the rescue efforts
By: A330Crazy - 9th January 2003 at 18:51
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A quote from someone else on the forums, “these things tend to happen in 3’s” 🙁
Some more sad news to hear, following on from yesterdays bad news, just hope it is found with all aboard safe and well.
By: Saab 2000 - 9th January 2003 at 18:40
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2003 has not got off to a good start.
By: EGNM - 9th January 2003 at 17:29
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AMAZING – all in 24 hours
By: KabirT - 9th January 2003 at 16:44
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Holy #####…what the hell is happeining???? All in one day!!
By: LukeEGTE - 9th January 2003 at 16:40
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The story is still developing, but here’s more….
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Air Force searched Thursday for a plane carrying 42 passengers that radioed in distress and then disappeared while flying over Peru’s Amazon jungle.
Tans Airline flight 1396 was three minutes from landing at an airport in the jungle city of Chachapoyas, 400 miles north of Lima, when it called in an emergency at 8:43 a.m., Tans spokesman Jorge Belevan said.
“That is when we lost contact with the plane, and we don’t have more information,” he said.
Belevan said the Air Force was searching for the plane, a Fokker 28.
The plane was flying from the coastal city of Chiclayo, 410 miles northwest of Lima, he said.
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January 9, 2003 at 4:34 pm