Search crews were lowered by ropes from helicopters through dense jungle searched the wreckage of a Brazilian jetliner that apparently clipped an executive jet and slammed into the ground in the Amazon rain forest, probably killing all 155 people aboard.

Loggers in Brazil are razing forest dangerously close to where government anthropologists detected traces of an isolated Amazon tribe, despite a judge’s order to stay away from the area, an Indian rights group said yesterday.