SAO PAULO, 20 May. (Reuters) - Brazil's Federal Court has sentenced to three years and four months in prison air controller lucive Tiburcio de Alencar for his role in the collision of two aircraft in the Amazon in 2006, an accident that cost him lives of 154 people. However, the penalty may be replaced by community service.
Judge Murilo Mendes in Mato Grosso (west) has found that there was negligence in the performance of Tiburcio de Alencar, so has also imposed a ban on practicing as an air traffic controller during the set time for grief. Instead, the air traffic controller also Jomarcelo Fernandez dos Santos has been acquitted of all charges for endangering the Brazilian air traffic safety.
This week, the same judge also sentenced Joseph Lepore and Jan Paul Paladino, pilots the small appliance to four years imprisonment, which may be replaced by community services in the United States, where they originated. The event took place in September 2006 when a small aircraft used for business usually brushed their wings with a Boeing 737 of the Brazilian airline GOL, into the Amazon jungle, one of the worst air disasters in the history of South American country.
In the first weeks after the accident, the Brazilian authorities strongly criticized the pilots and air traffic controllers who had attended to consider human error. A report of that year produced by the Brazilian Air Force revealed that both planes had been allowed to fly at the same height, about 11,000 meters.
After this, the Brazilian air traffic controllers staged a series of protests to denounce their working conditions and the existence of blind spots in radar, which led to a collapse of the sector in early 2007. 
Judge Murilo Mendes in Mato Grosso (west) has found that there was negligence in the performance of Tiburcio de Alencar, so has also imposed a ban on practicing as an air traffic controller during the set time for grief. Instead, the air traffic controller also Jomarcelo Fernandez dos Santos has been acquitted of all charges for endangering the Brazilian air traffic safety.
This week, the same judge also sentenced Joseph Lepore and Jan Paul Paladino, pilots the small appliance to four years imprisonment, which may be replaced by community services in the United States, where they originated. The event took place in September 2006 when a small aircraft used for business usually brushed their wings with a Boeing 737 of the Brazilian airline GOL, into the Amazon jungle, one of the worst air disasters in the history of South American country.
In the first weeks after the accident, the Brazilian authorities strongly criticized the pilots and air traffic controllers who had attended to consider human error. A report of that year produced by the Brazilian Air Force revealed that both planes had been allowed to fly at the same height, about 11,000 meters.
After this, the Brazilian air traffic controllers staged a series of protests to denounce their working conditions and the existence of blind spots in radar, which led to a collapse of the sector in early 2007.
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