Originally Posted by
A310driver
The news that the pilots have been released is good ....very good.
The news that they have been charged criminally is bad ....very bad.
This should be a wake-up call to all pilots flying internationally especially those flying to/in Brazil.
Should we now expect that similar charges will be laid against the ATC folks on duty and the honchos who ran(or were supposed to run) the ATC organization, even at the very top??? I expect the answer is "no" because they are part of the military and exempt from civil prosecution(or something like that).
Good show Brasilia!
The investigation has not finished, the federal police has term up to December 13 to close the investigation, but they already announced that they will request another extension.
If some ATC is charged, will surely be passed over to the military justice and I doubt that some of the big boys will be processed (they are usually fired or transferred).
Now it is everything in the lawyers' hands; process that will last years.
Lepore and Paladino said that in the USA they will make a sworn declaration, that it can be used for the trial in Brazil.
The charge against them is for negligent behavior in the conduction of the airplane.
Police officer Ramon Almeida da Silva said:
"exist in the solemnities elements of proofs and indications that point that these pilots acted with negligence and their conducts were causes of the accident, but we cannot say although they are the only cause".
....." The decision of accusing them felt with base in elements of existent proofs in the investigation, that point the lack of the pilots' necessary cares , expected and demandable during the accomplishment of a flight.
The investigations still were not finished, and other conducts will also be able to be pointed as causes of the accident."