[links to several of the accident reports]
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30157809.htm
Brazil plane plunged nose first into ground-official
30 Sep 2006 13:49:06 GMT
Source: Reuters
BRASILIA, Brazil, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The Brazilian passenger plane that crashed with 155 people on board likely plunged into the ground nose first, the president of airport authority Infraero said on Saturday, meaning there is little chance that anyone survived.
Jose Carlos Pereira told reporters that rescue planes found a concentrated wreckage site in the Amazon jungle, indicating that the plane hit the ground in a vertical position.
~snippet on the Brazilian plane
A reporter for The New York Times, Joe Sharkey, was one of seven people aboard the plane, all of whom were “O.K. but shaken,” according to an e-mail message that Mr. Sharkey sent to his wife, Nancy, an editor at the newspaper.
“No one believes we managed to survive a mid-air collision,” Mr. Sharkey wrote. “Neither of the pilots can understand how a 737 could have hit us without them seeing it,” he added, noting that the smaller plane was “flying stable northwest at 37,000 feet with the sun off the left wing, and a 737 would have been obvious.”
Both of the aircraft were new, authorities said, and were equipped with anticollision devices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/world/americas/01crash.html?_r=2&ref=world&oref=slogin&oref=slogin