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Brazil plane plunged nose first into ground-official

BRASILIA, Brazil, Sep 30 (Reuters) The Brazilian passenger plane that crashed with 155 people on board likely plunged into the ground nose first, the president of airport authority Infraero said today, meaning there is little chance that anyone survived.

Jose Carlos Pereira told reporters that rescue planes found a concentrated wreckage site in the Amazon jungle, indicating that the plane hit the ground in a vertical position.

REUTERS SHB KN1942

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