Pilot ‘Spared’ School in Crash, Report Says
The last words of the pilot of a jetliner that crashed into a Sao Paulo neighborhood were “I’m sparing the school,” TV Globo reported. Brazil’s largest private television network said it talked with an Aeronautics Ministry official who listened to one of the flight recording devices of TAM Flight 402, which crashed Thursday, killing all 96 people on board and six on the ground. Pilot Jose Antonio Moreno intentionally veered away from a school packed with more than 1,000 students, TV Globo quoted the official as saying.
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