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Swiss convict 4 air controllers over 2002 jet crash

04 Sep 2007 13:13:52 GMT
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BUELACH, Switzerland, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A Swiss court pronounced four managers at air traffic control firm Skyguide guilty of manslaughter on Tuesday over a 2002 mid-air accident that killed 71 passengers, most of them Russian children.

"The accused is guilty of multiple cases of manslaughter," said Judge Rainer Hohler, reading out each of the four decisions.

On trial were eight Skyguide employees charged with manslaughter for contributing to unusual circumstances that caused the disaster in Swiss-controlled airspace near the southern German town of Ueberlingen.

The court sentenced three managers to 12-month suspended sentences and one was fined. The remaining four Skyguide employees on trial were acquitted, the court said.

All defendants had denied the charges during the trial.

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