At a press conference with Metrojet in Moscow on Monday, deputy head of the airline Alexander Smirnov told journalists the company had "completely excluded technical error and an error on the part of the pilot" as possible causes for the disaster.
They blamed the crash on pilot error, noting that the pilot, James Cassoutt, had little experience or instruction in flying the plane.
Issues were identified by the screening office staff and logged on the pilot error log, which was submitted to Wealth Management Systems at weekly intervals.
The request, made by the Peixoto de Azevedo prosecutor, was granted by judge Tiago Sousa Nogueira e Abreu, who stated that the possibility of pilot error on the part of the Embraer crew could not be ruled out.
The disclosures increased suspicion among investigators that the crash occurred at least in part because of errors on the ground, and not, as Swiss officials had been implying, primarily because of errors by the pilot of a Russian passenger plane.
Investigators blamed human error; the pilot was at a control panel far from the plane.
BOGOTA, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Errors by the pilot, airline and Bolivian regulators are to blame for a plane crash in Colombia that killed 71 people last month, including most of Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team, Colombia aviation authorities said on Monday.
The pilot data were checked for errors or inconsistencies, and the study protocol was improved, based on the pilot findings.
