No Times de hoje #8

O artigo "Colliding With Death at 37,000 Feet, and Living" do Times de hoje é perturbador. Relata a história de um dos passageiros da aeronave que colidiu com o boeing 737 de uma companhia comercial brasileira, que caiu na selva amazónica a semana passada sem deixar sobreviventes... as operações de resgate de corpos não estão ainda terminadas. Não dá para descrever, fica o excerto.
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"It had been an uneventful, comfortable flight.

With the window shade drawn, I was relaxing in my leather seat aboard a $25 million corporate jet that was flying 37,000 feet above the vast Amazon rainforest. The 7 of us on board the 13-passenger jet were keeping to ourselves.

Without warning, I felt a terrific jolt and heard a loud bang, followed by an eerie silence, save for the hum of the engines.

And then the three words I will never forget. 'We’ve been hit,' said Henry Yandle, a fellow passenger standing in the aisle near the cockpit of the Embraer Legacy 600 jet.

'Hit? By what?' I wondered. I lifted the shade. The sky was clear; the sun low in the sky. The rainforest went on forever. But there, at the end of the wing, was a jagged ridge, perhaps a foot high, where the five-foot-tall winglet was supposed to be."