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Amazon Indians find Brazil plane crash survivors
30 Oct 2009 16:32:25 GMT
 Source: Reuters
BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Native Indians in Brazil have found survivors from a military plane that crashed into the Amazon rain forest with 11 people on board, the air force said on Friday, without announcing how many or in what condition.

Local media reported that nine of the 11 people aboard had survived the crash.

The small aircraft, which went missing on Thursday, was carrying four crew members and seven health officials on a vaccination campaign in remote areas of the jungle.

Members of the Matis tribe near the Itui river in the western Amazon region found the wreckage of the C-98 Cessna plane and the survivors in the jungle, Brazil's air force said in a statement.

The air force dispatched a rescue team to the site, near where the borders of Brazil, Colombia and Peru meet.

The area is home to a handful of Indian tribes that have little contact with the outside world.

Indians also located and helped in the retrieval operation of a Boeing 737 operated by Brazil's Gol airlines <GOLL4.SA> <GOL.N> that crashed into the Amazon in 2006, killing all 154 people on board.

(Reporting by Raymond Colitt, Editing by Alan Elsner)


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