Company Watch - TAM Linhas Aereas.

Jul 23, 2007

Scores Of Bodies Pulled From Brazil Plane Crash. Rescue workers in Brazil pulled burned bodies from smoking wreckage and collapsed buildings on Wednesday after about 200 people were killed in the country's worst air disaster. The TAM Linhas Aereas Airbus A320 was carrying 186 passengers and crew when it slid off a short, rain-soaked runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport late on Tuesday, hurdling a busy road before slamming into a gas station and cargo terminal. An acrid haze hung over the crowded neighborhood near Brazil's busiest airport as rescuers wearing masks put bodies in refrigerated trucks bound for the morgue. Dental records were being used to identify victims. Jul 19, 2007

An Airbus A320 operated by Brazilian carrier TAM Linhas Aereas crashed on landing in Sao Paulo, killing nearly 200 people, including all 176 passengers and some people on the ground as the aircraft skidded off the runway onto a busy road, slamming into a building. Rescue workers recovered bodies on the street at the site where the TAM airlines commercial jet crashed at Sao Paulo's busiest airport, Congonhas. Departing Porto Alegre's Salgado Filho International Airport at 17:16LT, Airbus A320-233 PR-MBK was finishing TAM flight JJ3054 to Congonhas airport, landing there at 18:45LT. Jul 18, 2007

A TAM Linhas Aereas Airbus A320-200 airliner crashed and burst into flames on Tuesday at Brazil's busiest airport, and as many as 200 people were feared dead in the country's second major air disaster in less than a year. Rescue crews said none of the 176 people on board the Airbus A320 were likely to have survived, according to Sao Paulo state Governor Jose Serra. Brazilian news agency Folha quoted the leader of a rescue crew as saying there could be 200 people dead, including casualties on the ground. Jul 18, 2007

The TAM Linhas Aereas Airbus A320 that crashed, was flying from Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, lost control on landing in Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport. It skidded off the rain-soaked runway and flew over a bustling avenue just below, crashing into a fuel station and cargo terminal where people were working. "The plane came spinning and passed over our heads at the level of the street lights. We could hear the engine noise getting louder and the plane growing in front of us. When it hit the ground it exploded sending pieces all around," said Luis Santos, who was in his car at the station at the time. Dozens of ambulances raced to the crash site and television images showed the plane's tail sticking out from the cargo terminal in flames as firefighters tried to put out the blaze, which spread to a nearby building. Jul 18, 2007

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