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Italy convicts crash pilot who paused to pray | |
2009-03-27 | |
A fuel-gauge malfunction was partly to blame but prosecutors also said the pilot succumbed to panic, praying out loud instead of following emergency procedures and then opting to crash-land the plane instead trying to reach a nearby airport. Another five employees of Tuninter, a subsidiary of Tunisair, were sentenced to between eight and nine years in jail by the court, in a verdict handed down on Monday. The seven accused, who were not in court, will not spend time in jail until the appeals process has been exhausted. | |
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