...With AA Grounding theirs voluntarily and TAM grounding theirs involuntarily, you Photogs better be getting your shots before they are prematurily gone...... --- Brian Rynott <latinaviation@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com