Rescue teams have found around 100 bodies in the thick Amazon jungle in northern Brazil, where a large passenger jet fell to the ground last week, killing 155 people in the worst plane crash in the country's history, according to dpa. The airline Gol said in a statement that rescue teams on Tuesday found the bodies of the pilot and the copilot. The National Agency of Civil Aviation (ANAC,) which is leading the investigation, said they were found inside the plane's cabin. Budget airline Gol's large Boeing 737-800 collided with a smaller, twin-engine private Embraer Legacy Friday. The Brazilian-built Embraer managed to land in a nearby military airfield, and its seven occupants were unhurt. Brazilian Air Force commander brigadier Luiz Carlos da Silva Bueno indicated that the 100 bodies were found close to each other about one kilometre away from the landing-gear, in a remote area of dense Amazon rainforest in the state of Mato Grosso. On Monday, the two black boxes of the Boeing, considered vital to the crash investigation, were found. Bueno said the boxes are in Brasilia and are to be sent to the United States in order to be studied by Boeing technical teams. The black box of the Brazilian-built Legacy is being subjected to investigation in the town of Sao Jose dos Campos, in the state of Sao Paulo.
