Update 2-11:00AM-CNN has just published the list in English.
Update: According to the Brazilian news article below, at 9AM today TAM announced that there were 186 people on board.
I don’t normally post these stories, but I still haven’t seen a list of passenger names on any of the English language news sites, so here is a list of the 176 passengers from a Brazilian news site.
List of passengers on TAM 3054 (Portuguese)
At least 15 more people on the ground were killed.
The Airbus A320 landed in bad weather, and crashed into a gas station, causing a fire of over 1800 degrees Fahrenheit
11 years ago a TAM flight skidded off of the runway at the same airport, killing all 96 on board…
I have personally flown out of Sao Paulo’s domestic airport, Congonhas, on multiple occasions.
It is right in the middle of the city and indeed has a very short runway (shorter than the runway at Chicago/Midway where the Southwest Airlines accident occurred a few years ago)
After my incident going from the much farther international airport, Guarulhos, to the city, I actually moved some of my domestic travel to leave from Congonhas instead of Guarulhos…
So far they don’t think there where any jewish people on the flight. I do know that there was one jewish guy that missed the flight B”H.
Levi Leão?
There’s a name Rebecca Haddad on the list, sounds jewish to me.
May we never know from such tsoros.
Besuros Tovos.
Any jews on the flight?
you can have the site translated
http://www.google.com/translate_t
The 1996 TAM flight crashed on take-off and not landing as this one did. I was almost on that flight and missed it by hours – your uncle n