John Baeyens

It’s a black day for Brazil. 

After weeks of absurd Brazilian Fandango dances and enormous pressure from abroad, the Brazilian Aeronoutics had to reveal their findings to the public. 
End I’m so delighted seeing all the  Brazilian absurd arguments eventually damping and Defense Minister Waldir Pires finalling sinking in his own swamps taking the pride of the whole Brazilian nation with him. You can run, but you can’t hide there Waldir, especially now that the whole world can hear that your own retarted air traffic controllers said in Portuguese (yes, Brazil, English is really the international accepted language in Aeronautics) “o senhor sobe a 37 mil pés e voa até Manaus“; every person reading this blog will undersand that this means that the Legacy pilots could fly at 37.000 feet from Brazilia to Manaus.   Even without this information we all knew already that the Legacy pilots were not to blame because when they lost contact flying at 37.000 feet any pilot should stay on it’s current course and the controllers should have put the GOL Boeing to the right, left, higher or lower since they did had contact with the GOL Boeing.

Some updates:
1. The American Legacy tried to make 19 (!!!) contacts with the traffic controllers. 
2. Apparently the infrastructure of air traffic controllers seems to be completely outdated.  Your retarded minister of Defense claimed with his big proud mouth after the day of the crash that the system was the most modern in the world.
3. The commander of the Aeronautics, Luis Carlo Bueno is giving up his dance of 53 days denying.

No, I’m not enjoying this.  I’m just ashamed.  I associate myself a lot with Brazil, but on moments like these I feel ashamed.  Which Brazilian (journalist) dared to critize the Brazilian Aeronautics, controllers or any Brazilian-related instance in the first weeks?  Nobody.  Like as it was a soccer game each Brazilian defended collectively green and yellow and burning two innocent American pilots; like as it was a medieval witch-inquisition.  It is only thanks to people like Joe Sharkey; who publicly offended the absurdly inhumane Brazilian minister of defence.  10 years ago the American pilots would have been emprisoned and falsely judged for the sake of the Brazilian pride and defending the colors.  Now there is fast open communication, open individual criticism and stubborn people (unfortunately no Brazilians) who even after 53 days don’t let go and seek the truth and nothing but the truth.

Meanwhile the American jet is taken (who knows next year a son of a Brazilian minister will fly it over the Amazon), the minister Defense soothens the Brazilians that there is no risk for another accident,  the Americans pilots are still emprisoned and will probably (hopefully) soon be released through a quiet backdoor without any press coverage, let be a ’sorry for the 2 months of horror’.  And the Brazilian people?  They watch their television and switch of their minds, instead of realising that it is exactly on these moments that one defends it’s colors by:

- Massively asking Defense Minister Waldir Pires and commander of the Aeronautics Luiz Carlos Bueno to step down.
- Publicly laugh at the families who opened a trial against the American pilots instead of suing their own government.
- Ask your own president to send openly a letter of excuse to the American pilots.

- Stop buying Veja magazine, they lie and make your country ridiculous.By closing your eyes and staying quiet not much will happen.  I wish you strength.

Picture: the cover of Veja, one of the major BR Magazines, 7 weeks ago. It reads: “The real story of the flight 1907. Two young American pilots. A new airplane. A flight over the Amazonian on a sunny afternoon. They tought they could do anything. And then happened the tragedy.” Mind the “real story”… I wonder what their cover next week will be; probably Brazilian tits or boops.

Another example: this is how the Brazilian Army newsletter writes on the tragedy:
A dor de um norte-americano que perdeu o filho na tragédia do vôo 1907 se traduz na voz embargada, na saudade e no desejo de justiça.
Em entrevista por telefone ao Correio, de sua casa em Jackson, no estado do Missouri (EUA), o professor aposentado Paul Hancock, 58 anos, contou ter conversado com o filho Douglas, 35, quatro dias antes de ele embarcar no Boeing 737-800.
“Doug” — como o pai costumava chamá-lo — era consultor de negócios da McKenzie Consulting e vivia no Rio de Janeiro com a mulher, Bianca, com quem era casado há seis anos.
Paul não admite uma suposta tentativa do governo norte-americano de ajudar os pilotos do Legacy 600 que colidiu com o Boeing 737-800 da Gol, no último dia 29.
“A tripulação tem de permanecer retida no Brasil até o fim da investigação. Se os pilotos forem responsabilizados legalmente, autoridades brasileiras precisam fazer o que fariam com qualquer criminoso”, afirmou.
“Que eles fiquem na cadeia”, acrescentou. O pai de Doug disse não compreender por que a mídia dos Estados Unidos tem dado pouca atenção ao caso.
De acordo com Paul, o governo brasileiro tem de controlar toda a apuração do desastre. “Eu sei que os Estados Unidos querem proteger seus cidadãos.
Mas, se houve negligência, os pilotos devem ser responsabilizados”, sustentou.
Ele considera egoísta a atitude do jornalista norte-americano Joe Sharkey — o sobrevivente do Legacy insiste em culpar o controle do tráfego aéreo da Amazônia e diz que os pilotos Joseph Lepore e Jan Paladino são seus heróis.
“Não me interessa se os pilotos são brasileiros, canadenses ou de qualquer nacionalidade. Se eles erraram, devem ser punidos”, afirma o professor.I have no words for this opera, it’s too embarassing.I have no words for this opera, it’s too embarassing.