Brazilian Appeals Court Finds Journalist Guilty of Defamation in Aftermath of Fatal Midair
A Brazil appeals court found American journalist Joe Sharkey guilty yesterday of defamation for his reporting and commentary following the 2006 accident.

An appeals court in Brazil found American journalist Joe Sharkey guilty yesterday of defamation for his reporting and commentary following the 2006 accident in which 154 died when a Brazilian airliner and a Legacy 600 business jet collided at 37,000 feet over the central Amazon.

Sharkey, on assignment at the time for Business Jet Traveler (an AIN Publications magazine for users of business aviation) was one of seven on the Legacy 600 who survived the collision when the damaged business jet managed an emergency landing at a remote military airstrip in the jungle.