Pilots Avoid Jail in Brazil CrashBy THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: May 16, 2011
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SÃO PAULO, Brazil — A Brazilian federal judge on Monday sentenced two American pilots involved in a fatal air crash over the Amazon rain forest in 2006 to community service.
Judge Murilo Mendes sentenced the pilots, Joseph Lepore and Jan Paul Paladino, to four years and four months of prison in a “semi-open” facility for their role in the collision between the Legacy private jet they were flying and a Gol Boeing 737-800, which resulted in 154 deaths. But the judge commuted the sentences to community service to be served in the United States, where the pilots reside.
Brazilian authorities accused the pilots of turning off the Legacy’s transponder moments before the accident and turning it on again only after the crash. In a deposition taken in the United States by Brazilian authorities via videoconference the men denied that the equipment had been turned off.
Judge Mendes, in the 86-page sentence, said the pilots had failed to verify the function of equipment for more than an hour, a length of time he called “an eternity” in aviation.
An Brazilian air traffic controller had been previously convicted in the case of a crime equivalent to manslaughter.
Pilots Avoid Jail in Brazil Crash By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The accident ocurred in 2006 in Amazonia, Brazil.
Two jets a Legacy and a Gol Boeing 737-800 which resulted in 154 deaths.
The accident occurred because Joseph Lepore and Jan Paul Paladino were accused of turning off the transponder minutes before the accident and turns it minutes after the hit.
I chose this news because, on the day of the accident I saw on TV, but I wanted to know more details, then looked at the site of the New York Times
Brazilians were treated with respect for the NY times, the news does not talk about Brazilian culture. Only describe the event. I liked the news, I thought well portrayed
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/world/americas/17brazil.html?ref=brazil
Jose Augusto Hindi 1anoA
Pilots cause 154 deaths in 2006
ResponderExcluirCondemned by Judge Murilo Mendes, the pilots of the accident of collision between the Legacy jet and Boeing 737 – 800 in the Amazon, were taken to community service in the United States, even after they refused to shut down when the jet was flying, and I chose this news because I agree with the fact of being responsible for this death arrested doing community service and found the topic interesting and what is being told, for I heard being spoken at the time it happened, and that made me interested to make a comment.
Gabriela Barbosa
The American pilots Joseph Lepore and Jan Paul Paladino were convicted late on Monday to four years and four months detention by Gol accident. Lepore and Paladino piloted the Legacy jet on September 29, 2006, when the aircraft struck the edge of the wing of Boeing that made the flight in 1907. I chose this story because I think the two pilots were not aware that it was dangerous to leave the transporter off, and I think that prison was right.
ResponderExcluirThe American pilots Joseph Lepore and Jan Paul Paladino were convicted late on Monday to four years and four months detention by Gol accident. Lepore and Paladino piloted the Legacy jet on September 29, 2006, when the aircraft struck the edge of the wing of Boeing that made the flight in 1907. I chose this story because I think the two pilots were not aware that it was dangerous to leave the transporter off, and I think that prison was right.
ResponderExcluirVictor Hugo 1ºB
I Think the Brazilian authorities accused the pilots of turning off the Legacy’s transponder moments before the accident and turning it on again only after the crash was right because the pilots said that the equipment had been turned off,but actually the pillots had failed to verify the function of equipment for more than an hour.
ResponderExcluirThat notice i Like because shows how they judge people for crimes,and i like this type of notice.
Darah Martinez
I think that judging the pilots it's kinda stupid . Beacause in one way or another no one can prove if they actually had something to do with the crash .
ResponderExcluirGuilherme Reis
What happend was that the cabin crew of the brasilin plane was slepping and didnt so tle lagacy caming !!
ResponderExcluirBut the accident just happend becose the lagcy transponder was off !!
they didnt now what happend on ther plane until they so on tv that a plane was missing at the same area that they lost a part of the wing
francisco
This article is interesting because it tells about of an accident that killed many people and talks about the reaction of the Americans with brasilians. And speaks of a subject that is happening around the world several times.
ResponderExcluirAna Beatriz Machado 1°C
The action of the authorities was right as arrest the cornered. I agree with the Darah's post
ResponderExcluirJose Augusto Hindi