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Old 27th Oct 2006, 23:06
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broadreach
 
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Hawk, yes, and of course I wasn't suggesting the Legacy crew should "sit back and wait". I still tend to think their passports will be returned soon and that a face-saving way will be found for the prosecutor to back off now that he's been told Cindacta will not be releasing any further "evidence" without a Supreme Court order.

The automatic withdrawal from duty of all the ATC staff (eight or eleven, not sure) involved in this accident is having a knock-on effect, with flights being delayed or cancelled in BSB and other airports. In BSB, "to avoid overload" as one controller can handle max 14 aircraft. In pretty much the same breath, Infraero president complaining of budget restraints and of "too many GA aircraft".

ATC reps (there's no union) have circulated a long overworked/underpaid/danger-in-the-skies letter. Very little is being decided in Brasilia right now, all attention on election Sunday 29th, so the atmosphere in that part of government is probably pretty poisonous at present.

Just to forstall any conspiracy theorists who might surface on seeing the pristine nature of the 738 CVR after three weeks buried in the undergrowth, it is said to have been wiped off and replaced in the hole for the photo. For Widgeon, one assumes that printed on the other side would be "Do not open".
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