Remember they agreed to return.



"601XL Builder" wrDOTgiacona@coxDOTnet wrote in message
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| Robert M. Gary wrote:
| Greg Farris wrote:
| I don't know how things work in Brazil.
| It could be similar to Europe, where a full
investigation of the accident
| cannot be completed without naming purported
"perpetrators" and subjecting them
| to a criminal investigation. The fact that the two
pilots are named as
| defendants does not preclude the naming of the air
traffic controlers as well.
|
| One possible weakness of such a method is that it puts
a very strong emphasis
| on the importance of human imperfections, while leaving
little place for the
| argument that a system design weakness may be equally
to blame, if not more so.
|
| I agree the US pilots would be crazy to EVER go back
there - This would even
| seem to be implicit in the fact that they were allowed
to leave!!
|
| Its not unheard of for U.S. Marshalls to arrest a U.S.
citizen in the
| U.S. to stand for a warrent in a foreign country....
| http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/09/14/dog.bounty/index.html
| U.S. treaties allow for foreign countries to issue
arrest warrents for
| U.S. citizens in the U.S..
|
| -Robert
|
|
| Yes but a US court and the Secretary of State will decide
in the bounty
| hunter case if he is extradited. The same would happen in
the case of
| the pilots.