Im a flight attendant for a major US airline, and I fly TAM from New York via Sao Paulo connecting to Rio almost monthly for leisure.

Never once have I had the problems this bitch talks of.

I have found TAM to be a great airline, with great service, and nice clean planes. To say that TAM was somehow to blame for that accident is outrageous, and horrible reporting.

Lets face it. Your a BITCH who has nothing better to do than try to get a BYLINE from a article which uses the death of 200 people to spark a dialouge.

I will continue to fly TAM and would encourage others to do so.

TAM chose to land oversized equipment, heavy, on a notoriously bad runway in a rain storm. That earns them a title closer to "criminally negligent," not "great airline."

I thought the primary mission of flight attendants was to protect passengers' safety -- not to encourage them to fly on a questionably safe airline that may very well have caused the deaths of close to 200 people simply because you work for them. Thanks for confirming Ms. Spier's argument.

HI,

I am writing this to as many posts as I can in order to gather support to come against the author as well as all those who allowed this to be posted. I encourage you to contact as many reputable news agencies and direct them to this article as well as the replies. Write to the Washington Post the owner of the SLATE and also finally to the Brazilian government. Perhaps the combined effort will make someone stand up and listen. As a Captain for many years I am used to the media getting all the facts wrong simply because they cannot wait for the professionals to have time to examine all the evidence. This is not about that it is about one writer using the very wide reach of MSN and the Washington Post to disgrace the memories of so many lost. Please do not let this die in the background. Pass it on.

Capt J