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Brazilian aviation authorities have confirmed that they have credible information that there are survivors aboard a plane that fell last night in the Amazon jungle.
The Boeing 737-800 belonging to Brazilian airline Gol fell with 155 people aboard, after colliding in mid-air with a lighter plane from the Brazilian Aicraft Manufacturer Embraer. The information on survivors is still very sketchy and there is not an estimate of how many of the 149 passengers and six flight crew may have survived. The FAB (Brazilian Force Area) has warned the Peixoto Azevedo hospital, close to the area of the accident to be ready to receive the victims. Célio Wilson of Oliveira, the Security Secretary of the state of Mato Grosso, informed that Indians from the Kayapó and Metutirê villages, near the area where the plane fell, said they had seen five crash survivors. Authorities in the area, however, called the information imprecise and said that it differs from reports by the Armed forces rescue team, who hasn't spotted any survivor. Wreckage of the Boeing were located this morning by the Brazilian military in an area on the border between the states of Mato Grosso and Pará, in northern Brazil. According to Gol, the fallen plane's pilot, Décio Chaves Jr., was an experienced aviator with 10,000 hours of flight. And the Boeing was brand new with only 200 hours of flight. The plane had been received from the manufacturer on September 12. Flight 1907 passengers' list: ACKER/JAQUES ALVES/LEONARDO ANCHIETA/ELCIO ARAUJO/AGAMENON ARMINDO/ANTONIO AZEREDO/GILSON AZEVEDO/MARCELO AZEVEDO/OTTO BERNARDO BARATO/JOSE BARBERO/VALDINEI ROBERTO BARBOSA/HENRIQUE BARRETO/RAFAEL BENEDITO/LUIZ ROGÉRIO BENJAMIM/MARIA TEREZINHA BEYER/HUGO BONAROSKI/LUIZ BORTOZOLO/ERTHELVINE BOVI/MARILENE BRANCO/KELISON BRESSAN/KEILA BRITO/ANA CLAUDIA CABRERIZO/GUSTAVO CALANDRINI/FABIANA CALANDRINI/JOÃO ARIANO CARDOSO/CLAUDIO CARVALHO/LUIZ CARVALHO/VIVIANE CAVALCANTE/FRANCISCO CAVALCANTE/ROSSANA COELHO/JOSE COLLI/VANESSA COLOGNESE/NELSON COPAT/IVAN COSTA/ELISABETH COSTA/JOSENILDA COSTA/GILCLEY CRUZ/CARLOS CRUZ/MARIA VALERIA CUSTODIO/LUIZ DA ROCHA/CLAUDIO DARC/JOANA DE JESUS/OSCAR DE JESUS/RUTH DIVINO/SILVA DUARTE DORIA/NILO EUSTAQUIO/THIAGO FALCAO/JOSEANE FARIAS/FRANCISCO FELIPPE/PAULO CESAR FERREIRA/MARCELO FONTOURA/ANDRE FREIXO/LUANA GARCIA/FRANCISCO GARCIA/HELEN GARCIA/PEDRO HENRIQUE GODOY/HELIO GOMES/REGINA GONCALVES SOBRINHO/LAZA GUIDI/JULIO GUTJAHR/ROLF HANCOCK/DOUGLAS IGNACIO/JOANA KOWALSKI/ANDREAS LEAL/JOAO LEITE/ANGELA LEMOS/LUCAS LESQUEVES/EUGENIO LIMA/THALITA LINS/ETEUVINO LLERAS/MARIO LLERAS/DANIEL LOIOLA/FRANCISCO CHAGAS LOPES/MARCELO PAIXAO LOPES/MARCELO LOPES/MARCELO LUCAS/ESDRAS MACEDO/OLGA MACENA/MARIA AUXILIADORA MACHADO/MARLON MACHADO/VALDOMIRO MAGALHAES/ROSANA MAIA/MARIA ZILDA MAIA/LAVOSIER MALAFAIA/MARIO MARQUES/INEZ MATTOS/ANTONIO MELO/OSMAN MELO/IZELIA MENDES/JULIO MENDES/AUGUSTO MENDES/MARINA MICHEL/FREDERICK MIRANDA/RONIVON MORAES/GLECIO MOREIRA/PATRICIA MOREIRA/QUEZIA NARANJO/RAYSSA NARDT/FRANCISCO NERES/KARLA NOE/RONALDO OLIVEIRA/CHARLIE OLIVEIRA/MARCIO OLIVEIRA/FRANCISCO OLIVEIRA/ENIO DE OLIVEIRA/VANDEMIR OLIVEIRA/ANTONIA PADILHA/JANINE PANIZZI/LOURDES PEIXOTO/PEDRO PESSOA/ANTONIO PIMENTEL/WALTER PIVOTTO/ELETA PRADO/DORNELIO RADESCA/RICARDO RAMOS/JOAO ELOI REZENDE/ATILA REZENDE/ISMAR REZENDE/MARIA REZENDE/FRANCIELLE RICKLY/MARIA DAS GRAÇAS RIGUEIRA/MARCELO ROCHA/SALUSTIANO RODRIGUES/MARIA JOSÉ RODRIGUES/ADAIR RODRIGUES/ANTONIO ROMANO/MAURO RONDINI/MICHEL ROSA/CLAUDEMIR SANT ANNA JUNIOR/MOZART SANTOS/PAULO SANTOS/ALEXANDRE SANTOS/EMANUELLE SANTOS/LUIZ SILVA/FELIPE SILVA/ANA SILVA/DANIEL SILVA/JUVÊNCIO SILVA/ROGERIO SILVA/MARIO SIQUEIRA/PLINIO SOUSA/CARLOS SOUZA/EDUARDO SOUZA/RICARDO SOUZA JUNIOR/CARLOS TARIFA/RICARDO TRINDADE/JOSE VIANA/HUEDERFIDEL VIANNA/HAMILTON XAVIER/SAMANTHA Crew members: COMMANDER: DECIO CHAVES JR. CO-PILOT: THIAGO JORDÃO CRUSO FLIGHT ATTENDANT: RENATA SOUZA FERNANDES FLIGHT ATTENDANT: SANDRA DA SILVA MARTINS FLIGHT ATTENDANT: NERISVAN DACKSON CANUTO DA SILVA FLIGHT ATTENDANT: RODRIGO DE PAULA LIMA
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