Aviation Safety Experts Reach Out to Brazilian Prosecutors

Brazilian federal judge Marcelo Honorato

By Richard Pedicini • Contributor - South America

January 2, 2013

Against the bitter aftermath of the 2006 midair between a Legacy 600 and a Gol 737 over the Amazon jungle that was fatal for all aboard the jetliner, Brazilian safety experts recently set out to show the nation’s prosecutors and judges that criminalizing aircraft accidents will never improve aviation safety. During the five-day course, “The Role of the Judiciary in Flight Safety,” more than 100 judges, prosecutors, military officers, safety investigators and legal professionals gathered in Brasília to learn the difference between aviation safety and police investigations, and the dangers posed both to safety and to justice by the misuse of accident safety reports. The course offered different theoretical perspectives on aviation safety, and an inside look at practice with a day at Cenipa, the Air Force’s Center for the Investigation and Prevention of Aviation Accidents, and another at the Brazilian Federal Police’s crime lab, hearing how police investigate accidents for the legal system.

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