"The authorities in Brazil were struggling yesterday to rescue its civil aviation system from the brink of total breakdown, nine days after a packed aircraft skidded off the main runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport, the capital city's main domestic hub, killing 199 people...The accident and its fall-out have triggered a political crisis for President Luiz Inacio (Lula) da Silva, who has largely been blamed by Brazil's travelling public for the system's flaws... The latest accident also prompted the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Associations to issue a warning that air safety in Brazil was "currently compromised and is a danger to the travelling public".

When will people learn that nothing can fly on the hot air of Socialism? It takes more than a clenched fist, tiresome rhetoric, and an inept bureaucracy.

See: The Independent article (2007-07)