"We discovered the existence of Crónica TV, which said that they were all dead, and of Austral that there were survivors" | Chronic

They spent 21 years of this tragic night of October 10, 1997, the day in which a fatal event killed 74 people, victims of impunity and the greatest aerial tragedy of air navigation in Argentina: the fall of the Austral DC9 that started Posadas in Buenos Aires and collapsed in a field in Fray Bentos, Uruguay.

This Tuesday, with 36 defendants, has been postponed "a formal hearing where, in addition to badisting those present (five were absent), the president of the court opened the debate and read the indictment of the prosecution"He told Chronic the complainant's lawyer Silvina Rumachella, sister of Viviana, one of the victims of the Austral tragedy.

The orbit of the same federal oral court about a single subject has three causes. "One is" Austral 1 ", which has the highest number of accused at the start, the number of 30, who have died and today are 26. On this main cause, a second call" Austral 2 "was derived in parallel a third with a person, who is also prosecuted for the main cause and who is related to the falsification of the documentation relating to the qualification of the aircraft"Rumachella explains.

As for the expectations for the beginning of the trial, Ignacio Politzer, Son of one of the victims of the Austral tragedy, commented Chronic What "We did not know if the Spanish defendants who had declared that they" would not submit to a Sudanese court "were going to arrive and yet they were here today. not expecting a success, but what happened today in the audience is that a group of A family without any economic power, nor anyone to support it, has sitting on the benches of the defendants in a very important weight bank of the King of Spain.

And he adds: "I always say that many of us We learned before the news of Chronicle TV where they were pbading "they are all dead", while from the Austral company, they said that there were survivors. "

The defenses claim that the tragedy was the consequence of a human error.. "This is not what the Uruguayan commission of inquiry determined: the main cause of the tragedy was due to the icing of a device whose planes are equipped with a pitot tube and which, because of the lack of alarm to be installed on the aircraft, the crew could not read correctly and correctly the speed, which is why it printed a wrong maneuver on the basis of the erroneous information it received, the error was caused and not an error due to professional misconduct ", maintains the lawyer Rumachella.

Silvina 's sister was a flight attendant and had been working in the company for 11 years. "We are still waiting for the condolences, they never approached, the human resources staff was approached to resolve the formal insurance problems, but there was no appeal from the president or vice-president "said the woman. "A lot of impunity, the first great tragedy of Argentina with these characteristics, and there was no challenge on the part of the state, nor of society, nor of anyone", he lamented.