Collision du Brésil ... les pilotes mis en accusation

Les deux pilotes sont donc mis en accusation mais les révélations dans la presse américaine laisse aussi entrevoir des dysfonctionnement du coté du contrôle.

Brazilian federal police on Friday charged two New York pilots involved in a collision that killed 154 people with exposing an aircraft to danger.

The charges could carry a penalty of 12 years in prison.

The pilots were questioned by police for six hours and then were allowed to pick up their passports and leave the country, but they are required to return for their trial.

The two pilots told police they would reply in court, and did not speak to media after questioning.

Police had seized their passports after the September 29 crash to prevent them from leaving the country, and they had been staying in a hotel on Rio's Copacabana Beach.

The Legacy was heading northwest when the accident occurred at an altitude of 37,000 feet, usually reserved for flights headed in the opposite direction.

Transcripts suggest the Legacy had been authorized by the tower to fly at 37,000 feet, although that contradicted the plane's original flight plan.

Warning systems failed on both planes before they collided, an air force investigator said last month.

Air traffic controllers believed the Legacy was flying at 36,000 feet at the time it collided with Gol Flight 1907.

But "at departure, air traffic control cleared the Legacy to Manaus at 37,000 feet,"  "Absent a contrary clearance by air traffic control, the Legacy was required to remain at that altitude."