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...Brazil may have an admirable air safety record, but it also has collectively thin skin - and once the shock of the tragedy wore off and the investigation began, Brazilians immediately rushed to point the finger at others. Leaks from police, investigators or military officers who run Brazil's air traffic system portrayed the two pilots as irresponsible amateurs who flew at the wrong altitude, ignored controllers' orders, performed reckless maneuvers, changed their flight plan without notifying the tower or switched off crucial equipment that could have warned the approaching jet of their presence in the same air lane...
...where depends on the federal judge who is handling the case and the country's powerful military. The judge is now reviewing evidence and must decide whether military personnel, if they are involved, should face a civilian or armed forces tribunal. The military, which runs Brazil's air traffic control system, is not happy about its personnel being implicated. Military officers refused to hand over black box transcripts to police, delaying the inquiry and exacerbating the rivalry between the two bodies...
...meantime, the focus is firmly on the air traffic control system at the center of the controversy. If anyone doubted that the system urgently needs an overhaul, the weeks after the crash provided ample proof...
...What was a tragedy has turned into an institutional crisis. The air traffic controllers on duty the day of the disaster were removed pending further inquiries, causing manpower shortages. Those that remain on the job are angry at the levels of on-the-job stress, overwork and low pay and as a result are on a work slowdown. Problems with fiberoptic cables and radio transmitters have cut communications and left passengers stranded at airports. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and many days a third take off late. Irate travelers have threatened staff, trashed check-in counters and even stormed...
...With some help from Iraqi security forces, U.S. troops have managed to bring the level of violence down in parts of western and southern Baghdad, neighborhoods like Washash and Mekanik. In areas where U.S. troops control traffic through checkpoints and mount regular patrols, sectarian murders tend to drop. Would-be killers who fan out across the city from militia strongholds have a difficult time carrying out attacks amid car searches and street watches by U.S. troops. Perhaps the most visible example of this came in October, when U.S. forces threw up a temporary blockade around the Shi'a slum...