Pilots in Brazil crash defend actions
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Two pilots whose executive jet collided with a larger jet over the Brazilian jungle, killing 154 people, said Friday they were flying at the altitude assigned by air traffic controllers.
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The Brazil plane which crashed killing some 200 people had a reverse thruster turned off, it emerges.
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WASHINGTON  - Washington is likely to help Brazilin its plan to shoot down planes suspected of smuggling drugsafter determining it has enough safeguards to preventaccidental killings, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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A law allowing Brazil's air force to shoot down suspected drug planes comes into force on Sunday.
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Brazil's government has played down claims that it is about to step in to save flagship airline Varig as it battles huge debts.
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Preliminary investigations into Brazil's worst air disaster could be completed by next week and are focusing on why a smaller jet that collided with the downed plane was in a flight lane assigned to traffic going the opposite direction, authorities said Friday.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Military searchers parachuted down on Saturday to the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed a day earlier in remote Amazon jungle with 155 people on board.
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A Brazilian prosecutor planned to seek indictments Friday against two American pilots of an executive jet that collided with an airliner, killing all 154 people on board the commercial flight, his office said.
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The co-pilot of an American Airlines Airbus A300 that crashed nearly three years ago in New York made &quot;unnecessary and too aggressive&quot; use of the controls, safety regulators were told on Tuesday.
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Investigators search the wreck of a Brazilian jet that crashed at Sao Paulo airport, killing some 200 people.
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SAO PAULO -- A passenger jet crashed and burst into flames after skidding off a runway at Brazil's busiest airport yesterday and barreling across a busy highway, officials said. All 176 people on board were feared killed in what would be Brazil's deadliest air disaster.
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Debate over the cause of Brazil's worst air crash shifted on Thursday from widespread claims of a faulty runway to potential pilot error or failure of the plane's braking systems.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Searchers found dozens of bodies at the Amazon site of Brazil's worst airplane disaster on Tuesday and started to fly remains to the capital as investigators tried to determine how two planes collided.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Airborne searchers found the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane on Saturday that crashed a day earlier in Amazon jungle with 155 people on board and the chances of anyone surviving were slight, officials said.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Military searchers rappelled down on Saturday to the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed a day earlier in remote Amazon jungle with 155 people on board.
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Two U.S. pilots detained in Brazil for more than two months following a midair collision that killed 154 people arrived home in Long Island on Saturday to a rousing welcome from friends and family.
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A Brazilian public prosecutor accused two U.S. pilots and four domestic aviation controllers on Friday of contributing to an air crash last year that killed 154 people.