Accidents
ExcelAire pilots to testify in U.S.
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The two U.S. pilots–Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino–involved in a fatal midair between an ExcelAire Legacy 600 and a Gol Airlines Boeing 737-800 above the Amazon jungle in September 2006 will be allowed to testify in a criminal trial from the U.S.

Theo Dias, the pilots’ criminal lawyer in Brazil, said that the pilots always believed they had the right to testify in the U.S. based on a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty between Brazil and the U.S. “This is what we wanted,” he added.