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Gol Airlines
Gol Airlines, also known as Gol Transportes Aereos, is a low cost, major Brazilian airline designed to meet the growing need for air travel by people who live within normal means. Gol airlines was founded in 2000, and it has hubs all over Brazil , from San Paolo and forward. Gol airlines is the second largest airline company in the entire country of Brazil, with flights coming into and going out of Brazil all the time. The location of company headquarters for Gol airlines is in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Gol Transportes Aereos operates a fairly large fleet. Their team of planes consists of 65 planes, all of them Boeing 737 series planes, with more in the works. The airline even has countless destinations around the world, landing in 57 different airports on different ends of the globe.
Many people do not want to fly Gol Airlines because of the crash of flight 1907. In late September of 2006, Flight 1907 was in mid-air en route to Brasilia when it collided with a smaller Legacy jet. The jet was luckily able to land and sustained some mild to moderate damage, but Flight 1907 didn’t come off so easily. The remains of the flight was found in the Amazon river, and there were no survivors of that flight. Of course, this was just part of the legal troubles Gol airlines was facing, as Gol airlines had lawsuits pending from left and right. There were photos of the 737 crash and remains all over the news and the internet, and families were heart broken, as there were even photos of the 737s collision with the smaller business jet.
While this mystery never has been completely solved, it has been determined that flight control inadvertently and mistakenly advised the Legacy to fly a route that put it and the 737 on the same direct path; they could do nothing but collide, but the smaller jet was able to maneuver better and landed safely. In the mean time, the smaller jet lost communication with air traffic control and its radio had ceased working correctly.
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