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Hotel Fasano, Avenida Vieira Souto 80 (021-3202-4000; rio@fasano.com.br) Philippe Starck-designed homage to the 1950s and '60s right in the heart of Ipanema Beach...
Cresting the hill on Avenida dos Bandeirantes that leads to São Paulo’s Congonhas Airport, I saw the dense black smoke, blown sideways by the wind. When I ascended the driveway, I was confused. At that moment, the burning warehouse of Transportes Aéreos Marília (TAM), Brazil’s largest airline, looked like any of a dozen building fires I had seen on the evening news. But the severed tail of a TAM Airbus 320 protruded from the warehouse, signaling that the 176 people on board were surely dead...
...Airlines plane had skidded off the runway, over Avenida Washington, and into the warehouse, bursting into flames. Radio news correspondents didn’t know whether the plane had carried passengers or cargo, or the extent of the damage. “They don’t know anything!” yelled Laura. As we neared the crash site, the picture became clearer as the smoke grew darker. The plane had carried 176 passengers and people were trapped in the warehouse. The radio news program was tentatively blaming the crash on the runway’s lack...
Heading toward the main building to interview witnesses, we observed a chilling landscape. Ambulances and emergency vehicles lined most of Avenida Washington Luís. Directly below us on the street, rescue workers had spread a huge tarp yellow tarp and covered it with empty body bags and back boards, anticipating the toll to come...
...left on Avenida dos Bandeirantes, we saw that a third building behind the first two was still on fire. I did not see a single body in the four hours I spent at Congonhas. I did not witness distressed relatives. But the sight of the flaming wreck and the amputated tail of TAM flight JJ3054 will haunt me—and Brazilian aviation—for years to come. Matthew S. Blumenthal ’08, a Crimson news editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is interning at Folha de São Paulo...