In May, will Tam become the only Brazilian airline flying out of Brazil? If Ocean Air and Varig cancel all their International flights, their fleets of Boeing 737, Ebraer and Folker airplanes will service only Intra-Brazilian destinations.
Brazil’s aviation safety record is notoriously negative. In 2007, electrical problems shut down Brazilian airspace for 2½ hours. Brazil diverted incoming flights to return to their respective points of origin or unscheduled landings at airports from Chile to Puerto Rico. (This was subsequent to the Sao Paulo Airbus A320 TAM Airlines Flight 3054 crash, but it was by no means the first disaster.) The last couple of years,in fact, Brazil’s entire civil aviation system has been in crisis, suffering from safety issues, air traffic controller strikes as well as flight cancellations and delays. The so-called “Apagão Aéreo” (Aerial blackout) followed the Gol Flight 1907 mid-air collision.
The four CINDACTA, or “Centro Integrado de Defesa Aérea e Controle de Tráfego Aéreo (Integrated Air Traffic Control and Air Defense Centers) are run by the Brazilian Air Force. The government’s Tribunal de Contas da União (Union Accounting Tribunal) holds the Brazilian Government responsible for the disastrous record, due in part to Pan American World Airways Flight 202 ( April 28, 1952), VASP Flight 168 ( June 8, 1982), Varig Flight 254 ( September 3 1989), and TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 (October 31, 1996), among others.
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No one was injured Tuesday when two airplanes operated by Delta Air Lines clipped each other at an Atlanta airport, authorities said. One tail was damaged.
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Federal investigators plan to examine wreckage from the crash site and release a preliminary report within 30 days.
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The Piper plane involved in a crash in Vermont that killed four Connecticut residents…
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The Federal Aviation Administration says it will investigate the incident, in which no injuries were reported. Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines says it is working to re-accommodate passengers on both flights.
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH) — The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to provide updates Tuesday on the investigation into a plane crash that killed four people — including a …
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A Kansas City-area journalist was among passengers onboard a Lafayette-bound flight Tuesday morning that had its tail clipped by another aircraft while taxing for takeoff.
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“In the air you don’t have many options in case something happens,” Ioana Iachim told Newsweek.
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Middletown High School closed for the day on Tuesday following a deadly plane crash in Vermont.
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH) — The Van Ness Family spoke to News 8 this evening; they did not want to go on camera but said they are devastated after they lost two of their family members, Susan a…
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The four people killed in a central Indiana plane crash were from Iowa, according to officials.
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Three people, including a woman from Arizona, are dead after a small plane crashed into townhomes just outside of Portland, Oregon.
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A plane crash Sunday killed four Connecticut residents. Here’s what we know and what we…
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Vermont State Police confirmed that all four of the plane’s occupants were found dead after the plane crash.
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Middletown High School will be closed Tuesday after a teacher and student died in a small plane crash Sunday in Vermont.
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The occupants had flown to Vermont for a brunch reservation at Basin Harbor. They died attempting to return to Connecticut, officials said.
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