US pilots held in Brazil over deadly midair collision
AFP, October, 2006
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — Brazilian authorities detained two US pilots to face possible manslaughter charges over a mid-air collision that caused a jet airliner to plunge into the Amazon jungle, killing 155. Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino were the pilot and co-pilot of an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet that collided Friday with a Boeing 737 belonging to GOL airline at 11,200 meters (37,000 feet).
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The airliner took a nosedive and slammed into the rainforest below, killing everyone aboard. The business jet, with seven people aboard, managed to land at a jungle military base. Questions have reportedly been raised over whether the two pilots should have been flying at the same altitude as the airliner. A judge in Mato Grasso state, where the GOL plane crashed, ordered their passports confiscated at the request of a prosecutor investigating Brazil's worst-ever air accident. Federal police in Rio were to interrogate the ...
