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Pucallpa , Peru - Peruvian airliner crashes in Amazon
AFP via Babelfish translation | August 23, 2005

Posted on 08/23/2005 2:45:55 PM PDT by HAL9000

ALARM - a Peruvian plane is crushed in Amazonia

LIMA - an airliner of the Peruvian company Tans was crushed Tuesday close of the town of Pucallpa in Peruvian Amazonia, announced the police force by indicating that one was unaware of the fate of the passengers.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: airplane; amazon; crash; lima; peru; planecrash; pucallpa; tans
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1 posted on 08/23/2005 2:45:59 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

Amazing!


2 posted on 08/23/2005 2:48:04 PM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: HAL9000
Cypriot, Venezuelan, now Peruvian.

Al Queda practicing?

3 posted on 08/23/2005 2:52:41 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: HAL9000
From peru21,com

LAST MINUTE: Airplane of TANS hurries in Pucallpa leaving several deads

LAST MINUTE: Airplane of TANS hurries in Pucallpa leaving several deads 23 ago (Peru21.com) - an airplane of airline TANS coming from Lima late fell this to height of kilometer 6 of the highway Federico Basadre, in the city of Pucallpa due. The hurt accident has left a number indetermine of and according to RPP informed are several deads.

According to the correspondent informed into this transmitter in one of the cabins of the ship could apparently be appreciated the corpse of an air hostess, as well as of children and women.

The accident happened near the 16:00 hours near a well-known zone like Florida. The hypothesis that is handled the pilot would have made a forced landing due to strong rains that prevented the flight.

In its report the same transmitter managed to talk with the passenger William Zea, who was with wounded and burns in the hand. Although it could not need how many people went on board in the ship with capacity for 120 passengers.

Cash of the swarm of emergency of the National Police and firemen come making the rescue work.

According to the only flight to Pucallpa could find out Perú.21 in communication with the airline is the number 205, whose arrival was programmed for the 15:30 hours.


4 posted on 08/23/2005 2:52:57 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000

So he tried to land on a highway?


5 posted on 08/23/2005 2:54:58 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: HAL9000

These babelfish translations are rough, aren't they? I think I understand it: someone verified they saw bodies of a flight attendant & women on children at the scene?


6 posted on 08/23/2005 2:57:26 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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women AND children. I so cannot type today. :(


7 posted on 08/23/2005 2:57:52 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Don't forget about that Air France flight in Canada, the one where miraculously no-one died. Did they ever figure out what happened there?


8 posted on 08/23/2005 2:58:01 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: cgk

Looks like at least one survivor, this Mr. Zea.


9 posted on 08/23/2005 2:58:17 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: HAL9000

Peru passenger jet makes emergency landing in jungle

LIMA, Peru, Aug 23 (Reuters) - A Peruvian passenger plane on Tuesday made an emergency landing without its landing gear on a road near a jungle airport in heavy storms, firefighters said.

The plane, operated by state airlines TANS, was flying to the jungle town of Pucalpa in central Peru when it came down several miles (km) before the runway, police in the area added.

"The plane made an emergency landing but without its landing gear ... We don't know if anyone was killed," said firefighter Ilda Pineda.

One passenger, William Zea, told RPP radio about 20 people were injured in the crash landing.

TANS declined to comment.


10 posted on 08/23/2005 2:58:28 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: mewzilla

I think it was effects of high winds on landing.


11 posted on 08/23/2005 2:58:54 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: cgk

Oh, that's Babelfish? I thought it was English as a 12th language. :) Now it makes sense!


12 posted on 08/23/2005 2:59:15 PM PDT by MarineBrat (We are taxed twice as much by our idleness. -- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Heh. I'm still getting to that part ;)


13 posted on 08/23/2005 3:00:47 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: MarineBrat

;) it's like a puzzle.


14 posted on 08/23/2005 3:01:36 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
LIMA, Peru, Aug 23 (Reuters) - A Peruvian passenger plane on Tuesday made an emergency landing without its landing gear on a road near a jungle airport in heavy storms, firefighters said.

They don't hold planes for bad weather anymore?

15 posted on 08/23/2005 3:02:12 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

The plane landed long and couldn't stop in time.

The pilot made a bad approach and figured he could pull it off.


16 posted on 08/23/2005 3:02:24 PM PDT by hattend (Alaska....in a time warp all it's own!)
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To: MarineBrat
Oh, that's Babelfish? I thought it was English as a 12th language. :)

Write a couple of paragraphs. Babelfish it to German, then to French, then to Spanish and back to English. What comes back can be really funny. I gave the Babelfish treatment to Hamlet's soliloquy once- it was hysterical.

17 posted on 08/23/2005 3:03:27 PM PDT by Riley (STOP CASTING POROSITY!!)
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To: hattend

Give me the Pony Express.


18 posted on 08/23/2005 3:03:51 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

I think bad weather is all the time there ;^).


19 posted on 08/23/2005 3:05:01 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: HAL9000

I wonder- are there suddenly a lot more air crashes than usual, or is the rate of crashes about the same, but the media is paying more attention to them for some reason.

The first thing that came to mind was- once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.


20 posted on 08/23/2005 3:05:50 PM PDT by Riley (STOP CASTING POROSITY!!)
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