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 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - In a key legal step toward assigning blame for Brazil's deadliest plane crash, two U.S. pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers were indicted on charges equivalent to involuntary manslaughter for a mid-air collision that killed 154 people.
Judge Murilo Mendes on Friday ordered the two U.S. pilots to appear in Brazil in late August to give preliminary depositions. But a lawyer for the pilots suggested the men would not return.
The charges were filed by a prosecutor last week in a federal court in Sinop, a small city near the Amazon jungle site where a jetliner plunged into the rain forest last September after colliding with an executive jet flown by the Americans.
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