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28 Mar 2017

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BBC News (UK)

Brazil: Airline Gol to pay $1.3 million to indigenous tribe after plane crash pollutes their land & disturbs cultural practices

"Brazil tribe gets compensation for plane crash over Amazon forest", 28 Mar 2017

One of Brazil's top airlines, Gol, has agreed to pay $1.3m (£1m) to an indigenous tribe in compensation for the damage caused by a 2006 plane crash. A Gol aircraft on a commercial flight collided with a private jet in mid-air in September 2006, in the skies above the Caiapó indigenous reserve.  The Caiapó tribe refused to go back to the area where the debris fell.  They say it is now polluted and cursed with the presence of the dead.  Their dwellings and a health centre...had to be rebuilt elsewhere in the reserve...The airline and tribe leaders came to an out-of-court agreement, which was signed...earlier this month...