who responded to the questions, as the others elected not to respond. By the end of August, near the one-year anniversary of the tragedy, the investigation had accumulated 1,600 pages of findings in 80 sections, it had heard 1,500 witnesses, and 34 indictments were carried through the judicial process. At this point, the various sources of information had rendered enough evidence to show that, although the direct cause of the accident was human error, the pilot was in no condition to command an airplane; thus, the responsibility also fell partly on company officials and various high-level heads of the Air Force. In early November 2000, the second session of the Federal Court of Appeal annulled the confiscation of 60 million pesos that the judge had ordered against the LAPA officials. Formal charges On 22 December 2000, in a 1200-page resolution, Judge Literas charged four LAPA officials and three members of the Air Force. The LAPA officials were charged with estrago culposo seguido de muerte (similar to 'catastrophic criminal negligence leading to death') and included: Gustavo Andrés Deutsch – President. Ronaldo Patricio Boyd – Director general. Fabián Chionetti – Operations manager. Nora Arzeno – Human resources manager. Likewise, several members of the Air Force were prosecuted for dereliction of duty in public office: Brigadier Major Enrique Dutra (retired) – Head of the Command of Aerial Regions. Commodore Carlos Petersen (retired) – Director of Empowerment and Promotion. Commodore Diego Lentino (retired) – Director of the National Institute of Aeronautical and Space Medicine. When the resolution was released, it also called for seizing the assets of LAPA president Gustavo Deutsch in the amount of 40,000,000 pesos, 500 thousand for Director General Ronaldo Boyd, and 100 thousand for each of the other managers. All of the accused escaped incarceration. With respect to the motive behind accusing the LAPA officials, La Nación drew upon the judicial resolution: There are by now enough prima facie elements to sustain that the accused negligently performed those duties and obligations that were assigned to them, consequently creating a dangerous situation that ultimately produced the disaster investigated, from the arrival of commander Gustavo Weigel to the company, allowing the development of his career within it, to the moment of the assembly of the crew that was in charge of flight 3142 on 31 August 1999. The daily Clarín added that the resolution states that "a large fraction of the pilots