U.S. pilots charged in crash of airliner
From Times Wire Reports
Police formally accused two U.S. pilots in connection with Brazil’s deadliest air disaster, saying their “lack of caution” at the controls of an executive jet played a role in the Sept. 29 collision over the Amazon that killed all 154 people on board a Gol Airlines Boeing 737-800.
New York state residents Joseph Lepore, 42, and Jan Paladino, 34, were allowed to return to the U.S. pending trial. Their jet landed with all seven occupants unharmed, but the airliner spun out of control and crashed.
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