{"id":622,"date":"2025-02-08T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=622"},"modified":"2025-02-08T22:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T22:23:01","slug":"in-a-bustling-district-a-small-plane-collides-with-a-bus-and-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"In A Bustling District, A Small Plane Collides With A Bus And Explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>On Friday morning, a jet struck a bus on a Brazilian highway, causing two fatalities and six injuries in the flaming tragedy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video showed blazing fragments of the bus and airplane scattered across the Sao Paulo roadway as they detonated upon collision. The local fire service was battling to contain the flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five minutes after taking off, the plane tried to make an emergency landing, which led to the terrifying accident at approximately 7:20 a.m. local time, according to the local fire department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aircraft lost communication with the Campo de Marte airport\u2019s control tower and crashed while traveling to Porto Alegre in the state of Rio Grande de Sul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A video posted by StoryfulNews showed massive flames and a lot of smoke billowing from Marques de Sao Vicente Avenue, a busy street in San Paulo\u2019s Barra Funda neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highway was lined with cars, and the jet just missed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIt exploded immediately. Everyone was paralyzed. The plane was ripping up palm trees and signs,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;witness Genival Dantas Arraes told TV Globo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cUnfortunately, we begin this day with this tragic air accident in the capital of Sao Paulo,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;Sao Paulo Gov. Tarcisio de Freitas posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is worth highlighting the rapid response of the Fire Department, which put out the flames of the accident in a few minutes, preventing an even greater tragedy. My condolences to the family and friends of the victims.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=m6UPd12QxDI%3Ffeature%3Doembed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday morning, a jet struck a bus on a Brazilian highway, causing two fatalities and six injuries in the flaming tragedy. Video showed blazing fragments of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}