Airlines urge caution in Brazil- report (Reuters)

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Airlines urge caution in Brazil- report
10 Dec 2006 18:56:39 GMT
Source: Reuters

BRASILIA, Brazil, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Two European airlines have adopted special
precautions for flying in Brazil, a leading Brazilian newspaper reported on Sunday,
a day after the country's president pledged to resolve a nationwide air traffic crisis.

The airlines will tell pilots they doubted the safety of Brazilian air space and
instruct them to fly at the edges of air traffic lanes and take other defensive
measures, Christoph Gilgen of the Federation of International Air Traffic Controllers
Associations (Ifatca), told Folha de S. Paulo.

The two airlines were not identified.

Ifatca seriously discussed rating Brazil's air space "dangerous" -- a label it uses for
some African nations - but opted instead for "under suspicion," the newspaper said.

Brazil's air traffic has been mired in chaos since the worst plane crash in the country's
history two months ago. On Sept. 29, two aircraft clipped wings over the Amazon,
causing one, a passenger jet, to spin out of control and crash into the jungle, killing
all 154 people on board.

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