Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The wreckage of a Gol passenger 155 people aboard was found by aviation officials today.
Inteligentes SA, Brazil s biggest airline by market value, was concentrated in a tight circle, suggesting the plane crashed into the ground at a very high speed, said Jose Carlos Pereira, the head of airport operator Infraero.
The flight was on its way to the capital Brasilia from Manaus, in the heart of the Amazon, when it crashed yesterday.
``It is very unlikely that we will find any survivors, hour, Pereira said at a news conference in Brasilia.
region, in the center-western part of Brazil, said Cosette Castro, an aviation authority spokesman.
Pereira said the difficult to access, forcing rescue crews to be lowered from helicopters.
operation will still take some time, he said.
Brazil s Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA before it crashed, Pereira said.
The aircraft maker, known as Embraer, said it was plane that it manufactured. Brazilian officials and Embraer have yet to confirm if the accidents were related.
with no injuries aboard, Embraer said, citing unconfirmed reports.
The plane, with serial number 965, is owned and operated by one of its clients, Embraer said by e-mail.
local time. The flight was then set to fly to Rio de Janeiro.
The aircraft last made contact at 4:48 p.m. yesterday in the Serra do Cachimbo area, midway between Manaus and Brasilia, Pereira said.
new Boeing Co. 737-800 plane, which was delivered to the airline on Sept. 12 and had only logged 200 hours of flight time.
said they saw an explosion in the air.
search and rescue operations, along with three aircraft and five helicopters, Castro said in a phone interview from Brasilia.
providing information to families and journalists, the aviation authority said.
site. Family members of those on board are being counseled at a Brasilia hotel near the airport.
the low-cost Gol airline five years ago.
The carrier s success helped turn his family into Brazil s second-richest.
left by Varig, Brazil s bankrupt former flagship carrier.
percent midway through this year from 27 percent in January.
In the same period, the share of Varig, whose full name is Viacao Aerea Rio-Grandense SA, fell to 11 percent from 20 percent, according to Brazil s civil aviation regulator.
While most of the company s flights are within Brazil, Gol also has services to Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay.
The last major airline crash in Brazil occurred in 1996, Aereos Regionais SA crashed minutes after takeoff in Sao Paulo, slamming into a residential area and killing 98 people.
In 1982, near Brazil s northern city of Fortaleza.
