200 feared dead in Brazil plane crash
A passenger plane has crashed at Brazil’s Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, killing up to 200 people.
According to reports, none of the 176 people on board the TAM Airbus A320 survived and more people were killed on the ground.
Landing in wet weather, the aircraft came off the runway, skidded across a busy road and crashed into a fuel depot.
Congonhas airport is mainly used for domestic and regional flights.
The plane was travelling from Porto Alegre in the south of the country.
By Bev Fearis
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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