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O Globo releases footage from Gol crash site

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Almost a year after Gol Airlines Flight 1907 plunged into dense Amazon rain forest, killing 154 people, the Brazilian news network O Globo has aired previously unseen footage of the extensive military efforts to reach the isolated crash site.

Brazilian air force searchers dropped by helicopter faced ‘thick forest, heat, danger of contamination and bee attacks,’ among other obstacles, O Globo reports. The operation lasted 54 days and involved more than 800 personnel. No survivors were found.

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The Gol Boeing 737 crashed after colliding with an executive jet en route to the United States. The damaged business jet managed to land safely at a military base without casualties. Two U.S. pilots of the executive jet and four Brazilian traffic controllers face criminal charges in Brazil in connection with the crash.

Posted by Patrick J. McDonnell and Andrés D’Alessandro in Buenos Aires

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