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Pilot who prayed is convicted !? (Read 239 times)

Mar 24^th, 2009 at 11:54pm

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090324/od_nm/us_crash

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PALERMO (Reuters) – 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.

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 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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Reply #1 - Mar 25^th, 2009 at 1:40am

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Seriously, I don't have a problem with him praying, but atleast multi-task and quietly pray while attempting to save the aircraft.... Undecided

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Reply #2 - Mar 25^th, 2009 at 5:39am

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I read about this yesterday and was going to post it, but could not get away from certain possible prejudices against a certain possible religion so I felt discretion was better ~~valor~~ a locked thread or ban Lips Sealed

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Reply #3 - Mar 25^th, 2009 at 11:44am

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There's certainly a conflict of priorities there - one that he and his co-pilot appear to have got fatally wrong.

Very worrying, and another airline to maybe think twice about after the apparent debacle in Amsterdam last month?

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