Currently undergoing repairs in Cleveland, the Legacy that was involved in the accident is pictured here arriving from Brazil on November 19, 2010. Photo: Doug McElroy - OPShots.net
BRASILIA — A Brazilian court has convicted two American pilots for their role in a 2006 midair crash with a Brazilian airliner that killed 154 people, but commuted their jail terms, angering victims’ families, AFP reported Tuesday.
Relatives of people killed in the accident said in a statement Tuesday that they were “disappointed and angry” with the judge’s decision.
“They’ll just go to the embassy for coffee, and the judge thinks that is a sufficient punishment,” Rosane Gutjahr, whose husband died in the crash, told reporters as she left the courtroom.
via Pilots Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino in Brazil air crash have sentences commuted – NYPOST.com.
