Documents offer new perspective on Brazil collision

Newsday.com: "Two Long Island pilots involved in a September midair collision over the Amazon rain forest were never lost before impact and were trying to figure out an onboard entertainment system -- not the critical flight-management computer, as previously indicated, the voice cockpit recorder on their jet shows.

Nearly eight months after the accident in which 154 died, the full transcript of the cockpit recorder has surfaced, and the 112 pages give a very different impression of the pilots' competence compared to leaked excerpts in the Brazilian media in February. Those excerpts suggested the pilots did not know how to program their flight computer and did not know where they were shortly before the collision."