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...away, and at first I thought it was just normal traffic, or someone had crashed their car. But suddenly people came running through, shouting ‘come, come, a plane crashed.’ When we got close and saw the scene, the plane in flames and smoke, the eight of us were paralyzed...
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...
...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 of “grooving.” (Grooves cut into the pavement to allow for water drainage...
...entirely engulfed the soon-charred structure. The press and onlookers stole closer for a better look; I got within 50 yards. The second blaze culminated in a series of explosions that scattered our retinue and signaled the building’s collapse, which we watched in horror. The smoke and smell of burning rubber became unbearable. We watched as the firefighters struggled to move trucks and water-guns into position to fight a clearly unanticipated second blaze...
...French men in their mid-20s share a laugh on a central Paris cafe terrace, where an early evening crowd has spilled out onto the sidewalk to sip drinks and puff cigarettes. But as the less wary of the chatting men notes, the tart fumes coming from smokes like his own signal that tobacco isn't the only substance being inhaled here. "This," he says, gesturing with a hashish-stuffed joint, "is becoming almost as common as this," raising a glass of red wine. "It's so banal anymore that even cops scarcely notice so long...