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SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNN) -- No one is believed to have survived the crash of Gol Airlines Flight 1907 in Brazil's Amazon region, said rescuers, as they struggled with dense rainforest to reach the wreckage Saturday.

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The plane disappeared from radar screens while over military-controlled airspace, the civil aviation spokesman said.

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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 rain forest went on forever. But there, at the end of the wing, was a jagged ridge, perhaps a foot high, where the 5-foot-tall winglet was supposed to be.

And so began the most harrowing 30 minutes of my life. I would be told time and again in the next few days that nobody ever survives a midair collision. I was lucky to be alive - and only later would I learn that the 155 people aboard a Boeing 737-800 on a domestic flight that seems to have clipped us were not.

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