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Angry Riots in Argentine Court over Aviation Decision


Photo: A LAPA – Lineas Aereas Privadas Argentinas
Boeing 737-2T4C/Adv photographed in July 2000, not the ill-fated LV-WRZ

Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
Contact photographer James Richard Covington

Relatives of victims disrupted the Argentine court when a two-year long trial ruled 6 LAPA (Lineas Aereas Privadas Argentinas) officials were not negligent. The operations manager and the 737 airlines chief both received three-year suspended sentences. Neither is currently employed in those positions.

35 survived the 1999 crash; 65 were killed. On August 31, 1999, the LAPA Boeing 737 crashed at Buenos Aires, Argentina while taking off on a regularly scheduled passenger flight to Cordoba, Argentina. Witness reports indicate the pilot had aborted the takeoff. The airplane departed the airport property, crossed a highway, and came to rest on a golf course. There were 101 persons on board. The flight failed to take-off, broke through a perimeter fence and burst into flames on a golf course.

The investigation attributed the crash to pilot error and found LAPA and air force deficiencies also contributed. The Argentine Air Force controlled civil and commercial aviation until 2009.


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MIAMI, Dec. 29

Eastern Airlines Flight 401 Tribute Group will be meeting Tuesday to mark the 37th anniversary of the 1972 Florida Everglades airplane crash that killed 101 passengers.

The crew was attending to a landing gear light, and distracted from the fact that the plane was losing altitude.

75 passengers survived.

Bonds formed in family association support groups can be very strong, and continue nurturing the survivors for decades.

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