Italy convicts crash pilot who paused to pray

by Phil Stewart
Reuters
March 24, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1504/italy-convicts-crash-pilot-who-paused-to-pray

Excerpt:

A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court along with his co-pilot.

The 2005 crash at sea off Sicily left survivors swimming for their lives, some clinging to a piece of the fuselage that remained floating after the ATR turbo-prop aircraft splintered upon impact.

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