A Boeing 737-200 of TANS airliner, carrying 100 people crashed Tuesday near a jungle town while attempting an emergency landing in a storm, killing at least 37 people. The pilot tried to land in a marsh, but the impact split the aircraft in two, a regional official said. The Boeing 737 went down near the Pucallpa and it should be landing on that airport. Because of the strong wind the pilot said he will not be able to reach the airport. The plane crashed in two parts after the impact.

At this time (8:30 a.m. Romanian time) all 57 survivors are treated in the hospitals. There are 37 killed. on board was a young child (for the moment no press agency announced its age) and is one of the survivors.

This is the second crash in TANS history. On January 10, 2003 another Peruvian airliner of TANS carrying 46 people, including eight children, disappeared amid cloud-covered mountains in the Amazon jungle. Heavy rain hampered the search effort.

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