Accidents
NATA Summit covers criminalization in aviation
In September 2006, days after an ExcelAire Services Embraer Legacy 600 and a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 collided over the Amazon jungle in Brazil, an internat

In September 2006, days after an ExcelAire Services Embraer Legacy 600 and a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 collided over the Amazon jungle in Brazil, an international group of flight safety organizations passed a resolution declaring that “the paramount consideration in an aviation accident investigation should be to determine the probable cause of and contributing factors in the accident, not to criminally punish flight crews, maintenance employees, airline or manufacturer management executives, or air traffic controllers.”

As the third anniversary of the accident (which killed all 154 people aboard the airliner) approaches, the Legacy 600 remains parked at a Brazilian air force base where it made an emergency landing, still entangled in legal, political and financial red tape.