Cockpit voice and flight data recorders found from American Airlines flight that collided with military helicopter; 28 bodies recovered from Potomac River

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Air Blue Black Box Recovered

A six member committee will be investigating the crash of the Air Blue Airbus flight ED-202. 152 people on board the Airbus A321 aircraft were killed when it slammed into a hill on July 28. The black box and cockpit voice recorder which was in the tail of the plane was recovered in the wooded Margalla hills after a three day search by twenty rescuers who had been hampered by heavy rain and inaccessibility. Major accidents are investigated jointly by the international aviation community; and the box appears to be in adequate condition, soon to be decoded in either France or Germany.

The box holds crucial details which will help determine the cause of the crash, and will be examined by international experts.

Pilot Pervez Iqbal Chaudhry was 61 years old, and suffering from diabetes and hypertension, and possibly suffering fatigue if he had observed prayers of the holy day preceding the crash.

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GOL: Brazilian Court Rules Negligence

The Brazilian Court of Appeals has ruled negligence on the part of two American pilots.

Over the Amazon rain forest, the Gol jet collided with an Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet owned by ExcelAire Service Inc. of New York. The pilots of the New York-based executive jet had placed the transponder and collision avoidance system on standby prior to colliding with the Boeing 737 operated by GOL Linhaus Aereas Inteligentes SA on Sept. 29, 2006.

The charges had been dismissed in 2008.

Prosecutors accused the pilots of accidentally turning off the transponder that transmits the jet’s location. The defense says Brazilian air traffic controllers should have informed the Long Island pilots that their transponder was turned off. There’s no indication that the Legacy’s control panel indicated that the transponder was off, and that controllers set the planes on a collision course.

The Legacy landed safely but everyone on the GOL jet died. Flight controllers failed to alert pilots that they were on a collision course and also did not notice–or communicate that the transponder was off.

The two U.S. pilots Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino could get up to three years in prison after “a string of catastrophic errors committed by Brazilian air traffic controllers. In essence, they put and kept these two planes on a collision course.”

ExcelAire says that “the transponder issue is a distraction from the true cause of the accident, which is an air traffic control system that put two airplanes on a collision course for about an hour.”

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