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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Four flight controllers indicted in connection with Brazil's deadliest air disaster testified Monday before a congressional commission, a day after two of them blamed the crash on equipment error.
The men spoke behind closed doors to a panel investigating the country's troubled air traffic control system as dozens of their colleagues demonstrated outside in support of their allegation that obsolete instruments caused last year's jetliner crash that killed all 154 aboard.
A federal judge on Friday indicted the four men, as well as the two New York pilots who were flying an Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet when it collided with a Boeing 737 operated by Gol airlines over the Amazon rainforest on Sept. 29.
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