page_title: Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907
section_title: Detention and charging of Embraer crew
hierarchical_section_title: Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 / Detention and charging of Embraer crew
caption_attribution_description: English: Damaged Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft, which earlier had hit the Gol 1907 aircraft, at Brigadeiro Velloso Air Force Base, Pará, Brazil. Português: No Campo de Provas Brigadeiro Veloso, o avião Legacy, fabricado pela Embraer, que teria se chocado com o avião da Gol.
context_page_description: Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 was a Boeing 737-8EH on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil, to Rio de Janeiro. On the afternoon of 29 September 2006, it collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet over the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. The Boeing 737 broke up in mid-air and crashed into an area of dense jungle, killing all 154 passengers and crew on board. Despite sustaining serious damage to its left wing and tail, the Embraer Legacy jet landed safely with its seven occupants uninjured.
  The accident was investigated by the Brazilian Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, and a final report was issued in 2008.
context_section_description: Immediately after the Embraer's emergency landing at the Cachimbo air base, Brazilian Air Force and Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC) officials detained and interviewed the flight crew. The two "black boxes"—the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and the Flight Data Recorder (FDR)—were removed from the Embraer, and sent to São José dos Campos, São Paulo, and from there to Ottawa, Canada, at the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) laboratories, for analysis.
  In an initial deposition, the Embraer flight crew testified that they were cleared to flight level 370, approximately 37,000 feet (11,000 m) above mean sea level, by Brasília ATC, and were level at that assigned altitude when the collision occurred. They also asserted that they had lost contact with Brasília ATC at the time of the collision, and their anti-collision system did not alert them to any oncoming traffic.
  On 2 October 2006, the Embraer's captain and first officer were ordered by the Mato Grosso Justice Tribunal to surrender their passports pending further investigation. The request, made by the Peixoto de Azevedo prosecutor, was granted by judge Tiago Sousa Nogueira e Abreu, who stated that the possibility of pilot error on the part of the Embraer crew could not be ruled out. The Embraer crew were forced to remain in Brazil until their passports were released to them on 5 December 2006, more than two months after the accident, after federal judge Candido Ribeiro ruled there were no legal grounds for "restricting the freedom of motion of the foreigners."
  Prior to their scheduled departure to the United States, the crew were formally charged by Brazilian Federal Police with "endangering an aircraft", which carries a penalty of up to twelve years in prison. The two pilots had to explain why they had not switched on the transponder. They were allowed to leave the country after signing a document promising to return to Brazil for their trial or when required by Brazilian authorities. They picked up their passports and flew back to the U.S.
caption: Damage to the Legacy's left side
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