Sao Paulo airport’s main runway open
Authorities reopened the main runway at the country’s busiest airport for the first time since a TAM Airlines jetliner crashed there 10 days earlier, killing 199 people.
A TAM jet was the first to touch down on the 6,362-foot main runway at Sao Paulo’s Congonhas airport, but the airline said it would only use the airport when it was not raining. Its Airbus A320 that crashed was trying to land in driving rain.
The accident created more chaos in Brazil’s air travel industry and led to the ouster of the defense minister. The military controls the country’s air traffic.
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