Eleven to be indicted
Today's 'Folha de S.Paulo' updates the total to 11 to be accused, including two from the airline's pilot training area:
Prosecutors' Office suggests accusing 11 in TAM case
State Prosecutors' Office can only suggest, since case will go to Federal Prosecutors' Office
City Desk
The MPE (state Prosecutors' Office) yesterday concluded a brief on the 2007 TAM accident, suggesting the accusation of 11 people for the crime of an attack on the safety of air transport. The case should be passed on to the Federal Prosecutors' Office, which will return an indictment to the courts.
The Prosecutors' Office's list includes three more TAM employees whose names had not been indicated by the Civil Police: Orlando Bombini Júnior, Alex Frischmann and Alberto Fajerman - linked to crew training.
According to prosecutor Mário Luiz Sarrubbo, they were negligent because they did not explain to TAM's crews that they weren't landing in conformance with the manner indicated in the airplane's instruction manual, in relation to the throttle positions. Just the airplane that crashed had landed incorrectly 13 times.
The names of two Infraero employees - who okayed use of the runway on the day of the accident - were on the police's list, but were discarded by the Prosecutors' Office, under the argument that they were just following orders.
The Prosecutors' Office also suggests the following accusations: Marco Aurélio dos Santos de Miranda e Castro and Abd El Salam Kishk, of TAM, brigadier José Carlos Pereira, ex-president of Infraero, besides Milton Sérgio Silveira Zuanazi, Denise Abreu, Jorge Luis Brito Velozo, Marcos Tarcisio Marques dos Santos, Luiz Kazumi Miyada, all linked to Anac (the National Civil Aviation Agency) at the time of the accident.