Now, back to the airplane crash situation. After some brief investigations, it is known that the american pilots piloting the Legacy jet were on a unspecified altitute (37 feet, when the tower clearly specified an even numbered altitute for the Legacy, either 36 or 38 thousand feet). At a certain point, the pilots ignored this, and turned off some instruments so the ground personal and the towers wouldn't be able to see what they were doing. Unfortunally, this also caused for the jet not be properly located by the Boeing instruments. The 737-800 pilot was able to see the Legacy jet for a fraction of a second before impact, and rapidly climbed, saving the lifes of the 7 people aboard the jet, but he was not able to save his own, and the other 154 people aboard the 737-800. The Gol Boeing airplane was hit badly, started to fall vertically and got into supersonic speeds, the fuselage desintegrated in the air and people were thrown out into the air out of distances of 20 km. Some hit the ground alive. Some fell into the air in small pieces.
The "The New York Times" reporter aboard the airplane wrote an article about the crash, saying how sorry everyone felt about it, and CLEARLY showing that he knew the altitute, as he claimed to be able to see the altimeter some minutes before the two planes colided. SADLY, giving an interview to NBC, he changed his mind. He said he had no idea what was the altitue of the airplane, but he said he was pretty sure the Legacy jet was right and the Boeing was wrong, and he claimed the fault to be of the tower control. He, in no moment during the interview, showed any remorse or regret, and never mentioned the people who died. He claimed, more than once, that our country's air controllers are incompetent, that it was their fault, that Brazil is a dangerous place to fly, and that he was afraid about the fate of the american pilots.
It is absolutely unfortunate that he decided to blame the ground control, seeing that it was OBVIOUSLY not the case. We have radar control over ALL the country's airspace, mostly due to territorial protection (long story). The average of accidents per million take offs are 0.8, zero point eight at Brazil, way below the world average of 1.25. I hate a lot of things about this country, but when someone decides to badmouth us and LIE in a national television network, that makes me pissed. He obviously dosen't care about the 155 people killed.