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BRASILIA: Lack of experience by two US pilots flying a private jet that collided midair with a Brazilian airliner in 2006 contributed to the deadly crash of the latter, an official report Wednesday said.The document, by the Brazilian Air Force, blamed the US pilots and Brazilian air traffic controllers for the disaster, which killed all 154 people on board the Boeing 737 owned by the Brazilian airline Gol in September 2006.It said the pilots, Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino, were unfamiliar with the Embraer Legacy jet they were flying. They had just picked up the small aircraft in Sao Jose dos Campos, outside Sao Paulo, and were heading to the United States at 37,000 feet when their aircraft clipped the Boeing going in the other direction at the same altitude.The airliner crashed into the...
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Obama to pick Chinese-American scientist as energy secretary
WASHINGTON: US President-elect Barack Obama is expected to nominate Steven Chu, a prominent Chinese-American scientist for the post of energy secretary, media reports said.Obama will also pick Lisa Jackson for environmental protection agency (EPA) administrator and former Clinton administration EPA director Carol Browner as his energy czar.Chu, whose father came from China, is director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics.Jackson is the head of the Department of Environmental Protection in New Jersey, where she has earned mixed reviews.The formal announcements will be made in the coming...
