Thursday, July 19, 2007

Focus of Brazil air crash shifts away from runway

(Reuters) - Soon after Tuesday's fiery accident at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport, which killed all 186 people on board and more on the ground, many officials and aviation experts blamed the rain-soaked runway where the plane skidded before slamming into a gas station and cargo terminal.




But a video of the botched landing by the Airbus A320 released by the national airport authority Infraero suggested other factors were also at play in Brazil's second major aviation disaster in less than a year.


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