TAM Brazil Fokker 100 crash-lands in farm.

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TAM Brazil Fokker 100 crash-lands in farm.
Reuters


A TAM Fokker 100 jetliner shortly after crash-landing on a farm in near
Aracatuba, Brazil on August 30, 2002.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Two Fokker-100 jets belonging to Brazil's TAM
airline made separate forced landings on Friday in the same state, one at a
farm and another in a city airport, although no serious injuries were
reported.
TAM, Brazil's second-largest airline, said its mid-sized Fokker-100 jet
landed at a farm near the town of Aracatuba, 325 miles northwest of the city
of Sao Paulo. A TAM spokeswoman did not know the cause of the forced landing
but said none of the 24 passengers on board were hurt.

Passenger Jose Jorge Rezende told Globo television via telephone it was
nevertheless a rough landing.

"The plane was ruined. The wheels were torn off, it was ripped up on the
inside, pieces of the plane flew off. And a cow was killed ... or at least
it's almost dead," he said.

It was not immediately known if the plane landed on an airstrip, common on
Brazil's large ranches and farms.

TAM later confirmed another Fokker-100 was forced to land in the airport of
the city of Campinas, which lies about 60 miles northwest of Sao Paulo,
without any landing gear. None of the 42 passengers were hurt, TAM said.

The incidents follow a series of accidents involving TAM's Fokker-100s,
which seat up to 108 people and were produced by Netherlands-based Stork
Aerospace NV .

In Brazil's last major air disaster in 1996, a TAM Fokker-100 jet crashed
shortly after take-off from Sao Paulo's city airport, killing all 96 aboard
and two people on the ground.

On April 3 the door of a TAM Fokker-100 fell off shortly after take-off. The
plane turned around and landed safely. In September of last year, one
passenger was sucked out of a TAM Fokker-100 and three were injured in a
forced landing after a loss of cabin pressure.

TAM said the first plane was flying from Sao Paulo to Campo Grande, the
capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state in the center of South America. The
second plane was flying to Sao Paulo from the coast city of Salvador in
Bahia state.




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