Brazil plane crash may haunt government
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Brazil's deadliest jetliner crash was an accident foretold. For months, air safety concerns have been aired in congressional hearings, and pilots and traffic controllers have worried for years about the short, slippery runways at Brazil's busiest airport.
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Rescue workers sifted on Wednesday through the smoldering wreckage of a jet liner that crashed at Sao Paulo airport, killing as many as 200 people in Brazil's second major air disaster in less than a year.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has come in for scathing criticism over his handling of Brazil's worst air crash after a close advisor was filmed apparently celebrating reports suggesting it was caused by a mechanical error and not government negligence.
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Rescue workers on Sunday hunted through the wreckage of a Brazilian jetliner that crashed in the Amazon rain forest, likely killing all 155 people on board in what would be Brazil's worst air disaster.
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More than half of all flights in Brazil were delayed or canceled on Tuesday for the third straight day as the country's air crisis deepened following a deadly crash last week and a major radar outage.
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The cockpit voice recorder from a private jet involved in Brazil's worst ever air crash and dialogues among traffic controllers point to a series of errors and misunderstandings that may have contributed to the accident, a local newspaper reported on Sunday.
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By Andrew Hay RIO CUEIRAS, Brazil  - Brazil's center-leftgovernment will unseal archives of the country's 1964-85military dictatorship in an effort to resolve a painful chapterin the nation's recent history, the justice minister said onTuesday.
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Brazilian officials investigate what caused a passenger jet to slide off a runway and crash, killing some 200.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - The Brazilian passenger plane that crashed with 155 people on board likely plunged into the ground nose first, the president of airport authority Infraero said on Saturday, meaning there is little chance that anyone survived.
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The reappearance of dictatorship-era documents relating to the treatment of political prisoners &#151; papers that a top government official said were destroyed decades ago &#151; has resurrected an issue many Brazilians would prefer to forget.
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State police said two people were missing and 11 were injured in the crash. It was not immediately clear whether all those people were on the plane.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A Brazilian court yesterday ordered police to seize the passports of two American pilots whose executive jet clipped a commercial plane in midair last week, causing the plane to crash in the Amazon jungle and kill 155 people, a spokeswoman said. A Brazilian newspaper reported that the Brazilian-made Legacy executive jet, which was carrying seven Americans, ...
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Brazil's government plans to take over Varig, the country's flagship airline, in a move to keep its planes flying during a restructuring process aimed at paying down the carrier's massive debt, the head of the government's airline regulatory agency said.
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BUENOS AIRES, July 18 -- Brazil will investigate whether recent construction projects meant to improve runway conditions at South America's busiest airport might have contributed to Tuesday's TAM airlines crash, which killed at least 189 people.
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A plane landing at an airport in SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil, skidded off a runway, crossed a busy highway and crashed into an office building and a gas station.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Newly surfaced photographs of  a victim of Brazil's 1964-85 military rule have put the  government in a quandary -- how to avoid riling the armed  forces while satisfying rights groups' demands for answers  about the country's "Dirty War."
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A plane with 176 people aboard crashed and burst into flames in Sao Paulo on Tuesday after skidding off a runway that has been criticized as being too short in a driving rain, the nation's airport authority said.