Firemen from Mato Grosso Fire Departament carry bodies of victims of the crashed Brazilian Gol airline at Jurina farm in Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, 950km north from Brasilia, in the Amazonian rain forest.
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Brazilian officials have reacted angrily to attacks on the country's air traffic control systems after an executive jet collided with a passenger aircraft over the Amazon region in central Brazil last Friday, ...
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... the flexibility for the jets to be integrated rapidly into the air transportation system, but current air traffic control policies may hinder that integration," Peeta said. "On the other hand, you are not going to get the government to change the ...
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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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