Plane crashes in Brazil with 150 on board

A Brazilian passenger plane with at least 150 people on board crashed and burst into flames after landing at Sao Paulo's airport last night, Brazil's airport authority said.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths by authorities, but flames shot into the sky and clouds of black smoke billowed into the air after the Airbus-320 skidded off the runway at Congonhas, Sao Paolo's airport for domestic flights.

The plane then travelled across a busy road at the height of rush hour in South America's largest city yesterday and slammed into a petrol station, said Jose Leonardi Mota, a spokesman with airport authority Infraero.

Brazilian media reported the plane crashed into a building or warehouse.

The Tam Linhas Aereas flight was en route to Sao Paulo from the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, Mota said.

The crash came 10 months after Brazil's deadliest crash, a September collision between a Gol Aerolinhas Inteligentes SA Boeing 737 and an executive jet over the Amazon rainforest.

All 154 people on the passenger jet died. The executive jet landed safely.