“Unfortunately, initial reports indicate that the aircraft’s occupants did not survive,” Governor Eduardo Leite said in a post on social media platform X. According to the public security office of Rio Grande do Sul state, at least 15 people were taken to the city’s hospital, most of them suffering from smoke inhalation caused by the fire triggered by the crash. Nestled in a mountainous region, Gramado is the most popular tourist destination in Rio Grande do Sul, which was severely impacted earlier this year by unprecedented floods that claimed dozens of lives, destroyed infrastructure and significantly disrupted the state’s economy.

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Air India to Cut (or Cut Cuts)
The issue of performance payments is being reviewed after the (Indian) unions rejected a 50 per cent cut proposal.
Air India CMD Arvind Jadhav is meeting with the committees reviewing the productivity-linked incentives, examining the PLI issue of pilots, engineers, officers and other technical and non-technical staff.
The examination is part of an operational and financial turnaround plan pruning costs, increasing yields and making profits for Air India.
Diligent Kudos to AeroMexico for Averting a Disaster
What: Aeromexico Boeing 737-700 scheduled from Costa Rica to Mexico City
Where: Costa Rica
When: Mar 12, 2011
Who: 2 (drunk) Mexican pilots, 101 passengers
Why: Saturday on arrival at the airport in Costa Rica for their shift, these two AeroMexico pilots complained of nausea. They probably had big heads too, since they had attended some kind of drunken revelry 7 hours before in San Jose, which is not long enough for the alcohol to be metabolized out of their systems. They were apparently intending to fly their shifts, but some eagle-eyed AeroMexico personnel correctly evaluated their condition. One of them refused the alcohol test, but not the other. Neither was allowed to fly, and both were suspended. The flight was delayed until replacement pilots (sober ones) were found to take the cockpit. Passengers were compensated for the delay.
In George’s Point of View
Is March the month for drinking? A case was just brought to our attention yesterday, and though it is not aviation, it is frighteningly similar, though I could argue they were completely different. But then, I could argue anything even if I’m not a lawyer.
The case I’m talking about is that of the BOLT Driver Arrested for DUI. Bolt is not an airline, but a bus division. So what is the similarity? There it was bussing (trucking) down the road when it was pulled over and the driver cited for tailgating, and driving in the wrong lane before he got his driving under the influence AND his license taken away. He was caught, sadly, not before his shift, and not by crew, but by passengers who clearly feared for their lives and called 911 from inside the bus, as the driver was either weaving, or napping or drinking, or all of the above. Someone had seen his pocket flask.
Okay, the obvious similarities are drunks at the wheel of communal transit. Both were caught before serious damage occurred. The difference—and this is crucial—are that the BOLT bus driver was allowed to take his shift, regardless of his condition. He put everyone aboard that bus at serious risk.
So kudos to AeroMexico. Even though all you’re going to hear about it is grousing from individuals complaining of the delay, your diligence probably saved the lives of 110 passengers.
Soaring Society of America Convention Announcement
We have been notified that the Soaring Society of America’s 2010 SSA Convention will be held in Little Rock, AR from Jan 28 to Jan 30.
Registration for the 2010 SSA Convention is now only available on-site during the convention.
The Convention Hotel is Doubletree:
Doubletree Hotel
424 West Markham
Little Rock, AR 72201
501-372-4371 or 800-222-TREE
Price is $126.00 for single and double rooms
Rate ends January 5, 2010 at 11:59 PM
Plane Passenger Moves Fellow Traveler’s Carry-On in the Overhead Bin After Claiming It’s ‘Too Large’
“I’ve never heard of a rule saying we don’t work together to make everyone’s bags fit,” the passenger wrote on Reddit while defending their actions

No one injured after planes bump at PHL, American Airlines confirms
Two planes bumped at Philadelphia International Airport on Sunday, American Airlines officials confirmed to Action News.
More News today (an overview of a few items we’re not covering right now)
For various reasons including that we have already covered these or don’t have room or time, this is more news:
- The NTSB is probing the Manhattan Township, Illinois crash that killed Larry Allan Diffley, head of Bemidji Aviation
- The pilot that was killed in a plane crash in Yuma on November 24 was Denise Jeanette McCracken
- The investigation into the Greensburg crash (that killed pilot Donald Horan, Horan’s 44-year-old wife Barbara, 45-year-old Stephen Butz and his 42-year-old wife, Denise) is expected to take over six months.
- Local police and media believed a November 30 Chicago plane crash set to be a real crash
- NTSB report is out on the crash that killed pilot Tom Steeper on his way from Houston to Oklahoma on November 26, when the plane crashed in southern Cherokee County.
- Preliminary reports are out for the Rochester,MN; Mekoryuk AK; and Bolivar, Mo non-fatal crashes in December; and the fatal crashes in Apollo Beach, FL; Blair, NE; Clutier, IA; Childress, TX; Scio, OR; Wells, TX; Corona, CA; San Andreas, CA; Great Guana Cay, Bahamas;
- Bosnian and Herzegovinan authorities are re-opening the investigation of the February 26th 2004 plane crash that killed Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski.
- Kevin Barry Jnr, who suffered extensive fractures and a brain injury in a Cessna crash on July 5 2007 is settling in Irish High Court for €1.7m against Lancton Taverns Ltd, SCD House, Waterloo Road, Dublin, and its director David Courtney.
- The South African Defence Force confirms that six crew members and five passengers died in a plane crash.
- Knox County Regional Airport in Owls Head is taking new safety measures after the Nov. 16 crash that killed U of Maine students and alumnus.
- Joshua Marlow, sole survivor of the July South Dakota firefighting crash was promoted from tech sergeant to master sergeant.
- Failure of one of a Boeing 787’s six electrical generators failed, causing the pilot of United Houston-Newark Flight 1146 to divert his 174 passengers and 10 crew safely to New Orleans.
- United Express Regional Jet made an emergency landing at Grand Junction Regional Airport