Miscommunication among air traffic controllers is likely to be the cause of the most devastating plane crash in the history of Brazil that took the lives of 155 passengers last week.
GOL Airline flight 1907 (a Boeing 737-800) collided into a small twin-engine private plane mid-air causing the larger plane to plummet vertically into a densely forested area, according to Brazilian Air Force.
While the actual cause of the crash is still under investigation, Brazilian media has reported that the accident could be blamed on the air traffic control problem. Both aircrafts flew into the air traffic control region that was operated from two different towers.
It has been speculated that the controllers in the separate towers failed to communicate to each other that the planes would be sharing the same airspace. Instead both pilots were assigned similar altitudes, which could have directly resulted in the mid-air collision.
All 155 passengers aboard the Boeing were killed while the American pilot of the small aircraft was able to make an emergency landing.
It will be at least three months before Brazilian officials determine the exact cause of the crash.
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