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...From the beginning, it was clear to at least some observers that the two American pilots, Joe Lepore and Jan Paladino, were not principally to blame for the tragic incident. Indeed, after telling Lepore and Paladino they were suspects, Federal Police spokesman Bruno Craesmeyer admitted: "The Federal Police believe that the American pilots are not as responsible as other people. There are more serious causes of the accident." The pilots' lawyer Theo Dias called the decision to charge them "premature, irresponsible and absurd," especially since his clients were told they would be charged before police even questioned them...
...Police detained Lepore and Paladino and confiscated their passports so they could not leave the country. But after they had been cooped for two months in a Rio hotel, a judge earlier this month issued a habeus corpus order to return their confiscated passports. Before they could get on a plane home, however, police rushed to formally charge them - even before a formal inquiry report was completed. The best reason they could find was, in Craesmeyer?s words, that the pilots "didn't see that the transponder wasn't working and didn't take any action...
...Frank V. Paladino, professor and chair of the department of biology at Indiana Purdue University, said that Earthwatch has been invaluable in his research of Costa Rican sea turtles, which he has studied for the past 20 years...
...What Earthwatch has let me do is keep a crew of students in Costa Rica for five consecutive years," Paladino said...
...Paladino also said the ability to sustain research over a longer period of time has allowed his team to "work with Costa Ricans and teach them about sea turtles as well...