October 2, 2006
EMBRAERROR:
Midair Collision Probably Led to Brazil Crash, Officials Say (PAULO PRADA, 10/02/06, NY Times)
Investigators said Sunday that they believed the crash of a Brazilian jetliner with 155 aboard in the Amazon rainforest was probably caused by a collision with a small business jet. Rescuers ruled out the possibility of finding survivors from the Friday crash, the worst in Brazilian history.The investigators said they were basing their theory on information gleaned from interviews with those onboard the smaller plane, an Embraer Legacy 600 piloted by and carrying Americans, which landed on a military airstrip in Mato Grosso State after a sudden jolt severed part of the left wing. [...]
Mr. Sharkey, who had been reporting an article for Business Jet Traveler magazine, said in e-mail exchanges with his wife, Nancy, that neither pilots nor fellow passengers had seen the larger aircraft, but that two people aboard saw a large shadow. “No one had a clue as to what happened,†he wrote. “There was a huge thump like a car crash.â€
Yup, Americans will just be lining up to fly Brazilian.... Posted by Orrin Judd at October 2, 2006 2:28 PM
Mid-air collision sounds like it could also be the fault of Brazilian Air Traffic Control. Doesn't matter what airline or airliner you might fly to or in Brazil (or any other country, for that matter) if the ATC there are incompetent. Anyone who thinks that's going to stop the insatiable Industrial-Tourism Complex needs to get out more.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at October 2, 2006 2:48 PMyes, just putting airplane and Brazil in the same sentence is enough to pucker butts.
Posted by: oj at October 2, 2006 2:55 PM"Embraer Legacy 600"
Sounds like darn good plane if it can fly without a wing. Apparently that can't be said about the Boeing craft.
Posted by: h-man at October 2, 2006 4:12 PM"piloted by...Americans"
Posted by: oj at October 2, 2006 4:40 PMYou mean in a midair collision, a dainty little aircraft lands without a scratch, while a huge jetliner is destroyed?
Posted by: ic at October 2, 2006 5:36 PMIn Brazil.
Posted by: oj at October 2, 2006 5:41 PMLAX: 22 killed when airliner cleared to land while another was on the same runway cleared into position and hold.
You need to get out more.
Posted by: Jeff Guinn at October 3, 2006 1:02 PMYou're making the argument for staying in more.
Posted by: oj at October 3, 2006 1:11 PMthis accident defies the line of reasoning of some comments above.... the small brazilian-built plane survives a crash with a Boeing. Those brazilian planes might be very secure, I think.
Besides, the american pilots said that they were at 37,000 ft (wrong way for them). I don't know what to think, but i woldn't be surprised if the small jet pilots were somewhat responsible for the accident.
Anyway. I read that Brazil has a good Air Traffic Control, though there is sort of a "blind spot" where the crash happened. And they found out that some equipament on the small jet wasn't working...
Anyway... the acident was very uncommon...
This accident defies the line of reasoning of some comments above.... the small Brazilian-built plane survives a crash with a Boeing. Those brazilian planes might be very secure, I think.
Besides, the American pilots said that they were at 37,000 ft (wrong way for them). I don't know what to think, but i woldn't be surprised if the small jet pilots were somewhat responsible for the accident.
Anyway. I read that Brazil has a good Air Traffic Control, though there is sort of a "blind spot" where the crash happened. And they found out that some equipament on the small jet wasn't working...
Anyway... the acident was very uncommon...