Brazilian search-and-rescue crews resumed operations today near the wreckage of a Gol passenger plane that crashed in the Amazon jungle with 155 people aboard. No signs of any survivors have been found.
Army troops spent the night at the crash site in the middle of the jungle to try and clear a landing site for helicopters. Bodies are being flown to the Serra do Cachimbo military base for identification, the Globo news service said.
Debris from the plane operated by Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA is concentrated in a tight circle, suggesting the plane crashed into the ground at a high speed, according to Jose Carlos Pereira, the head of airport operator Infraero. The flight was on its way to the capital Brasilia from Manaus, in the heart of the Amazon, when it went down on Sept. 29.
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