Brazil controllers confirm jets clipped before crash
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - An executive jet piloted by two U.S. citizens was at the wrong altitude when it crossed paths with a passenger plane that crashed in the Amazon rainforest last week, killing 154 people, the chief Brazilian air traffic controller said on Thursday.
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BUENOS AIRES, July 17 -- As many as 200 people were feared dead Tuesday night after an airplane skidded off the runway of a Sao Paulo airport, crossed a nearby avenue, slammed into a fuel depot and burst into flames.
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A federal judge indicted two U.S. pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers on manslaughter-related charges Friday in Brazil's worst air disaster, court officials said.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - A Brazilian airline passenger plane with 155 people on board disappeared over the Amazon jungle and was believed to have crashed, local officials and news reports said.
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SAO PAULO -- Brazilian police said yesterday that they are requesting that charges of endangering air safety be filed against two US pilots in the crash of a Brazilian airliner that killed all 154 people on board.
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An international pilots' group responded to a deadly plane crash in Brazil by urging authorities worldwide Wednesday to install long safety strips at the ends of airport runways.
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Investigators search the wreck of a Brazilian jet that crashed at Sao Paulo airport, killing up to 200 people.
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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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BUENOS AIRES, July 17 -- An airplane with at least 150 people aboard crashed upon landing at Sao Paulo's main domestic airport on Tuesday, bursting into flames after it skidded across a road and slammed into a nearby fuel depot.
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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 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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A passenger jet crashed and burst into flames after skidding off a runway at Brazil's busiest airport Tuesday and barreling across a busy highway, officials said.
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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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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazilian authorities confiscated the passports of two American pilots on Tuesday who were flying a business jet that apparently collided with a commercial airliner that crashed last week deep in the Amazon jungle, killing all 155 people on board.
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Two American executive jet pilots were ordered by a judge to stay in Brazil while authorities investigate whether they caused a midair collision with an airliner that crashed into the Amazon, killing all 155 people aboard.
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Brazil's air traffic communications system breaks down, causing chaos at three major airports.
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Debate over the cause of Brazil's worst air crash began to shift on Thursday from widespread claims of a faulty runway to potential pilot error or mechanical failures.