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NEW YORK — A Brazilian air force flight controller has been convicted of negligence in the 2006 collision over the Amazon between an executive jet piloted by two Long Islanders and a passenger airliner in which 154 people died.
In the first criminal conviction stemming from the incident, a military tribunal Monday gave Sgt. Jomarcelo Fernandes dos Santos a 14- month suspended prison sentence for his role as the primary controller when the planes collided on Sept. 29, 2006.
