Three weeks after Brazil’s worst plane accident occurred in Sao Paolo, the chief of the country’s airports administration, Infraero presented his resignation.

Jose Carlos Pereira gave in to pressure from the country’s new defence minister and forwarded his resignation. The gap will be filled by the president of Brazil’s space agency, Sergio Mauricio Brito Gaudenzi.

It seems the terrible crash that claimed 199 lives on July 17 is still making victims, Pereira being the latest after Waldir Pires was forced to leave the defence minister’s seat. In Brazil, the civil aviation falls under the jurisdiction of the defence ministry and Pires was accused of failing to tilt up a crisis that has been sweeping aviation in the country since last year.

He was replaced with former Supreme Court President Nelson Jobim who considered Pereira was unable to change the course of these unfortunate events that shook the credibility of Brazil’s aviation and asked for his resignation.

The tragic accident at Congonhas airport was also blamed on the slippery runway caused by the pouring rain. The runway had been recently resurfaced, but grooves for a quicker drainage weren’t installed and Infraero fell under heavy fire for giving the green light for Congonhas’ new runway.

Another grave incident occurred last year in September, when a plane crashed into the Amazon densely-forested area killing 154 people. The crash was provoked by a collision with another jet in mid air and sparked a wave of discontent from traffic controllers.

Their strike caused major delays on airports across Brazil and brought losses to airlines that couldn’t follow their regular schedule until the controllers’ demands weren’t met.