JUST NOT IN THE THIRD WORLD:

'I'll fly again,' vows L.I. pilot freed by Brazil (MIKE JACCARINO and JANE H. FURSE, 12/11/06, NY DAILY NEWS)

"Oh, yeah, I'll fly again," Jan Paladino said as he walked out of his Westhampton Beach home, a day after returning from Brazil, where he and co-pilot Joseph Lepore had been detained since the fatal September crash. [...]

Brazilian officials seized the pilots' passports and held them at a Rio de Janeiro hotel, charging they had been unauthorized to change their flight plan and fly at an altitude of 37,000 feet - the same as the Brazilian plane.

But transcripts indicate that air traffic controllers in Sao Jose dos Campos okayed the change in altitude.