New York Times reporter Joe Sharkey was on a freelance assignment last Friday in Brazil, flying over the Amazon. What follows is his firsthand account of what would become an incredible tale of survival.
That's a fair observation, Noam. We should not take lightly the tragic loss of life that resulted from this incident.
However, the fact that the author survived was indeed a case of survival. As he notes, "I would be told time and again in the next few days that nobody ever survives a midair collision. I was lucky to be alive — and only later would I learn that the 155 people aboard the Boeing 737 on a domestic flight that seems to have clipped us were not."
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Tale of survival? You gotta be kidding me... 155 people died! It's the biggest plane crash ever in the Brazilian aviation history!
That's a fair observation, Noam. We should not take lightly the tragic loss of life that resulted from this incident.
However, the fact that the author survived was indeed a case of survival. As he notes, "I would be told time and again in the next few days that nobody ever survives a midair collision. I was lucky to be alive — and only later would I learn that the 155 people aboard the Boeing 737 on a domestic flight that seems to have clipped us were not."
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