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Monday, November 05, 2007

At least 8 killed in small plane crash in Brazil

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- An executive jet crashed into a heavily populated neighborhood of Sao Paulo on Sunday, killing at least eight people and leaving a pile of smoky rubble just months after the city suffered the nation's deadliest air disaster.


A firefighter walks by the turbine of a small jet that crashed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday.

The plane, a Learjet 35 belonging to a Brazilian air taxi company, slammed into two houses shortly after taking off, said Lucia Ferreira, a spokeswoman for airport authority Infraero.

The dead included four men, two women, a child and another person, Sao Paulo's state security department said in a statement. [READ MORE]


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