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.

The Brazilian air force continued searching this morning in the densely forested Amazon region for a Gol airlines jet with 155 people aboard that went missing yesterday, Brazilian aviation authorities said.

Workers at aircraft maker Embraer, Brazil’s biggest exporter, will go on strike tomorrow unless the company backs down on job cuts it announced in the wake of diminished deliveries after the terror attacks in the United States, a union official has said.