Peruvian airliner crashes in jungle

[MadisonProgressive]

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- A commercial airliner carrying an unspecified number of passengers crashed Tuesday near a jungle town.

Radio reports said at least two people were dead and about 20 others injured with burns and broken bones.

"We are standing next to the cabin and we can see the body and it appears that it is a flight attendant in her uniform. We can also see a person; it appears to be a female," a correspondent for Radioprogramas radio said. "There are bodies of children. Many bodies."

The accident involving the Tans airliner reportedly occurred sometime after 4 p.m. local time (2300 GMT), about 9 kilometers (6 miles) from the municipal airport for the jungle city Pucallpa, 305 miles (490 kilometers) northeast of the capital, Lima.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/23/peru.crash.ap/index.html

What is it with all the recent crashes?

[jasmeel]

1. I know! It's freaking me out! I have to fly in Oct and Nov-damnit!

[montanacowboy]

2. Yah, Me Too

I have to fly to Phoenix next month - gag

[jsamuel]

3. don't worry, these planes are on their 5th owner by the time they get to

these airlines and countries...

which is something I have been talking about recently...

When cars get old, poor people buy them and eventually they stop working and maybe get fixed.

However, when poor people buy old planes, they eventually stop working and maybe in mid flight...

[malaise]

4. I think there was another crash in Switzerland today

at least they're survivors here.

[Fridays Child]

5. There's the third one.

Seems like this always happens in threes.

:(

[Roland99]

6. Are there certain people being offed in these crashes?

[wli]

7. check who was on the plane...

If there was anyone important it was probably an assassination.

[DemoTex]

8. Heavy weather, high terrain often yields smoking hole in jungle floor.

Too bad .. too many accidents lately. We had such a good safety streak going. Still do in the US (knock wood).