The two US pilots of the ExelAire Embraer Legacy 600 involved in the fatal Amazon collision with the Gol Linhnas Aereas Boeing 737-800 last Friday have reportedly been detained by Brazilian military authorities pending further investigation into the accident in which 163 people were killed.
Brazilian newspapers O Globo and O Estado de São Paulo are reporting that captain Joseph Lepore and co-pilot Jan Paladino have had their passports seized. The country’s military authorities, leading the accident investigation, are also said to be considering charges of involuntary manslaughter.
A judge in Mato Grosso state ordered their passports confiscated at the request of a prosecutor charged with determining responsibility in Brazil’s worst accident, police said late yesterday.
O Globo also reports that the Legacy, whic
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