Large Building Burning in Sao Paulo, Brazil - Undetermined Cause

Source: MSNBC TV

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - An airplane crashed into a building in Brazil's financial capital of Sao Paulo on Tuesday, according to local television network Globo TV.
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Television footage showed a cloud of dark smoke billowing above skyscrapers near the city's domestic airport, Congonhas. There were no immediate reports on casualties.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080520/ts_nm/brazil_crash_dc_1

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Reuters is now reporting that this may be just a fire, without a plane crash.

Isn't this the airport with the short runway where last year there was the tragedy with the plane going off the end of the runway?

REALLY bad urban planning ...

now the banner at the top says it is a fire and NOT a crash instead??

Airplane crashes into building in Sao Paulo: TV 8 minutes ago



SAO PAULO (Reuters) - An airplane crashed into a building in Brazil's financial capital of Sao Paulo on Tuesday, according to local television network Globo TV.

Television footage showed a cloud of dark smoke billowing above skyscrapers near the city's domestic airport, Congonhas. There were no immediate reports on casualties.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080520/ts_nm/brazil_crash_dc_1

Smoke in Sao Paulo is fire, not plane crash - TV 20 May 2008 20:38:26 GMT
Source: Reuters
SAO PAULO, May 20 (Reuters) - Brazilian television network Globo TV changed a report on Tuesday that an airplane had crashed into a building in Sao Paulo, saying the smoke billowing over skyscrapers was caused by a fire.

Local carrier Pantanal Linhas Aereas also denied the report that one of its planes had crashed in the city, South America's largest.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20340333.htm

Geral | 20/05/2008 | 17h21min

Incêndio atinge prédio comercial em São Paulo
Ainda não há informações sobre o número de vítimas
Atualizada às 17h50min

Um incêndio atingiu um prédio comercial na tarde desta terça-feira na zona sul de São Paulo. Ainda não há informações sobre o número de vítimas. Também não há informações sobre as causas do incêndio.

Nove equipes do Corpo de Bombeiros já estão no local. Segundo os bombeiros que atendem a ocorrência, ninguém ficou ferido.

De acordo com a corporação, o fogo teria começado em função de uma explosão no sistema de gás do estabelecimento.

Em um primeiro momento, foi levantada a hipótese de que um avião da empresa Pantanal teria caído no local. Porém, tanto a empresa aérea quanto a Infraero desmentiram a informação.

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Generality | 20/05/2008 | 17h21min Fire reaches commercial building in São Paulo Not yet it has information on the number of victims Brought up to date to 17h50min A fire reached a commercial building in the afternoon of this tuesday in the south zone of São Paulo. Not yet it has information on the number of victims. Also it does not have information on the causes of the fire. Nine teams of the Body of Firemen already are in the place. According to firemen who take care of the occurrence, nobody was wounded. In accordance with the corporation, the fire would have started in function of an explosion in the gas system of the establishment. At a first moment, the hypothesis was raised of that an airplane of the Pantanal company would have fallen in the place. However, as much the airline how much the Infraero had contradicted the information. She waits more information.

... and she has commented on the insane number of helicopters traversing the city. Evidently all of the hyper-rich use choppers to get around, because traffic in the city is difficult to negotiate. It would not have surprised me to hear that one of these had crashed into the building.

Regardless of the cause, hopefully there are no casualties.

I heard it was because they're afraid of being carjacked.

Keep it up (i.e. elect McSatan), and we're headed down the same road. :scared:

... although my friend only conveyed her thoughts about the traffic scene. IIRC, she used to commute a couple of hours each day, each way, and still finds it refreshing to have a five-ten minute drive to work in the States.

:-)

We have friends that live and work in the city as well. Just hope everyone is safe and the loss isn't too great.

The flight from Congonhas in downtown Sao Paulo to Santos Dumont in downtown Rio is bar none the most scenic and beautiful I've ever taken. Beaches, cliffs, big cities, rain forests; that flight has it all.

Still standing? As we have found out fire can make buildings collapse :sarcasm: