Winglets747
2007-06-03, 01:13 PM
Wow, I did not think legal matters regarding last September's mid-air collision over Brazil would go this far.
My understanding is that everything related to this incident was 100% an accident and I hope that the pilots and ATC do not face punishment.
RIO DE JANEIRO -- A judge indicted two American pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers yesterday on manslaughter-related charges in Brazil's worst air disaster, court officials said.
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The American pilots have been called on to give preliminary depositions on Aug. 27, and the flight controllers have been called to testify a day later.
Prosecutors last week asked the judge to indict pilots Joseph Lepore, 42, of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Jan Paladino, 34, of Westhampton Beach, N.Y., with exposing an aircraft to danger resulting in death.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/200706 ... -5128r.htm (http://washingtontimes.com/world/20070601-103636-5128r.htm)
Ellen Gracie Northfleet, the chief of the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), told the president and the reporter of the Air Blackout Congressional Inquiry, House representatives Marcelo Castro and Marco Maia, that Brazil's Justice has no means to compel Americans Joe Lepore and Jan Paladino, the pilots of the Legacy executive jet, which collided with the Boeing 737 last September, to travel to Brazil to testify before the congressional committee.
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While three of the flight controllers are being charged with involuntary manslaughter, one of them is being accused of intentional manslaughter.
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In the court filing, prosecutor Thiago Lemos de Andrade stated that the negligence of the six men caused the collision between the Legacy and the Boeing. According to the charge, air controller Felipe Santos dos Reis gave wrong instructions to the American pilots, not telling them about the Legacy's altitude changes.
Jomarcelo Fernandes dos Santos, another air-controller indicted. was responsible for monitoring the area in which the Legacy jet was flying, about one thousand feet above the altitude it should be. Santos is accused of not alerting the US pilots about their wrong altitude.
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Lepore and Paladino are being charged mainly for their use of the transponder and for not following the written flight plan. The prosecution says that both didn't know how to use the plane's equipment and that they ended up turning the transponder off unintentionally.
What a mess.
http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8317/54/
My understanding is that everything related to this incident was 100% an accident and I hope that the pilots and ATC do not face punishment.
RIO DE JANEIRO -- A judge indicted two American pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers yesterday on manslaughter-related charges in Brazil's worst air disaster, court officials said.
...
The American pilots have been called on to give preliminary depositions on Aug. 27, and the flight controllers have been called to testify a day later.
Prosecutors last week asked the judge to indict pilots Joseph Lepore, 42, of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Jan Paladino, 34, of Westhampton Beach, N.Y., with exposing an aircraft to danger resulting in death.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/200706 ... -5128r.htm (http://washingtontimes.com/world/20070601-103636-5128r.htm)
Ellen Gracie Northfleet, the chief of the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), told the president and the reporter of the Air Blackout Congressional Inquiry, House representatives Marcelo Castro and Marco Maia, that Brazil's Justice has no means to compel Americans Joe Lepore and Jan Paladino, the pilots of the Legacy executive jet, which collided with the Boeing 737 last September, to travel to Brazil to testify before the congressional committee.
...
While three of the flight controllers are being charged with involuntary manslaughter, one of them is being accused of intentional manslaughter.
...
In the court filing, prosecutor Thiago Lemos de Andrade stated that the negligence of the six men caused the collision between the Legacy and the Boeing. According to the charge, air controller Felipe Santos dos Reis gave wrong instructions to the American pilots, not telling them about the Legacy's altitude changes.
Jomarcelo Fernandes dos Santos, another air-controller indicted. was responsible for monitoring the area in which the Legacy jet was flying, about one thousand feet above the altitude it should be. Santos is accused of not alerting the US pilots about their wrong altitude.
...
Lepore and Paladino are being charged mainly for their use of the transponder and for not following the written flight plan. The prosecution says that both didn't know how to use the plane's equipment and that they ended up turning the transponder off unintentionally.
What a mess.
http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8317/54/