Interesting video (in portuguese) with regards to the political fight going on in the background:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dai2DYOiu9U
The video shows a presidential advisor for foreign policy and his press secretary apparently being happy when learning from a TV broadcast that one of the reversers of the TAM aircraft was not operational, seeing an opportunity to move blame away from the government.
Here is a part from a Reuters article relating to this incident:
"Marco Aurelio Garcia, a foreign policy advisor to the president, was shown on national television on Thursday making obscene gestures after news that pointed to problems with the braking system of the doomed A320.
Garcia later apologized, saying the gestures were a private expression of indignation at attempts to blame the government for the accident.
The opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party said Garcia's gesture was "an offense to the Brazilian people."
http://www.reuters.com/article/world...25570620070720
Although this obviously does not teach us anything about the accident itself I think it is good to keep this in the back of our mind as this story is developing.