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Brazil charges officials, carrier in air crash

by Luiz Castro | November 19, 2008 at 05:30 pm

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Brazilian authorities are charging 10 people, including former government officials, for contribuiting to the country's worst airline accident.They are all accused of violating national aviation security and could face prison terms of up to 6 years.

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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Police in Brazil charged 10 people on Wednesday, including former government officials, for contributing to the country's worst airline accident, which killed 199 people last year.

All 187 people on board and 12 people on the ground died when the TAM Linhas Aereas Airbus A320 overshot a recently repaved runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport in July of 2007.

Those criminally charged include the former head of the national aviation authority (ANAC), Milton Zuanazzi, as well as officials at TAM and at the airport authority Infraero.

They are all accused of violating national aviation security and could face prison terms of up to 6 years.