News Source: Reuters
| 27 days ago
Nine people survived a crash landing on a river in Brazil's Amazon rainforest after native Indians alerted authorities who dispatched a rescue mission, the government said on Friday. The small military plane, which went missing on Thursday, was...
News Source: National Public Radio
| 28 days ago
Members of the Matis Indian tribe found the plane and the survivors in a sprawling jungle reservation, the air force said in a statement. One person abroad the single-prop Cessna Caravan plane was missing and another may have died in Thursday's...
News Source: The Courier-Mail
| 28 days ago
Brazilian military transport plane that crashed deep in the Amazonian jungle have been found alive and well by tribesmen. One person on the flight that went down yesterday was found trapped in the plane and is presumed dead, while another apparently...
News Source: BBC
| 28 days ago
The Cessna C-98 Caravan issued a distress signal an hour after it left Cruzeiro do Sul in the Brazilian state of Acre at 0830 local time (1230 GMT). It was carrying four crew and seven health ministry workers involved in a vaccination campaign in the...
News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| 28 days ago
The mission was being undertaken by an interdisciplinary health team including municipal workers undertaking an immunisation campaign in indigenous communities. Search teams were launched aboard seven aircraft, including Blackhawk helicopters and a C-...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 28 days ago
A search by two Black Hawk helicopters and a C-105 Amazonas plane was underway for the single-propeller Cessna C-98 Caravan, the air force said in a statement. The plane was carrying nine public health workers and the two military pilots, a spokesman...