Pilot jailed for Sicily air crash
An Italian court has jailed a Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before ditching his plane, killing 16 people.
A fuel gauge fault was partly to blame for the crash off Sicily in 2005 but judges convicted Chafik Garbi of manslaughter, jailing him for 10 years.
Six others, including the co-pilot and head of the airline Tuninter, were jailed for between eight and 10 years.
The accused will not spend time in jail until the appeals process is completed.
”This was an unprecedented sentence but we have always maintained that it was an unprecedented incident,” Niky Persico, a lawyer for one of the victims, told Italy’s Ansa news agency.
”Never before in the history of aviation disasters has there been such a chain of events and counter-events.”
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