The Dangers Of Defaming Brasil.

JOE SHARKEY'S BLOG For September 29, 2009/
"Today is the third anniversary of the horrific mid-air collision at 37,000 feet over the Amazon between a Brazilian Gol 737 commercial airliner and a U.S.-owned large-cabin Legacy 600 business jet, in which 154 people died when the 737, a third of its wing shorn off, plunged into the jungle.
I was one of seven people on the business jet who survived.
Other than as a passenger on an ill-fated trip, my own role in this horrible mess began the day after I got back from Brazil, when my straightforward account of the crash ran on the front page of the New York Times.
To my astonishment, that account unleashed a fury of anti-American vitriol in the Brazilian media, and among some of the public, where I was accused of insulting the honor of Brazil and trying to make "heroes" out of the American pilots. I was flabbergasted by these charges."