Pilot Pauses to Pray and Kills 16 Passengers
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.
What a sad tragedy that could have possible been prevented if these pilots had relied on their training rather than an irrational belief in a god. It is a little comforting to know these people will be punished for their clear negligence. Oh and the pilots were Muslims in case anyone was wondering.
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a moslem cannot understand the value of life. sympathy, empathy is aliean to islam and other abrahmic religion weather true like christianity and judiasim or pseudo-abrahmic religion like islam. the notion of worship is islam is SLAVERY. NO wonder moslims place FEAR superior to LOVE. terror rules ISLAM–TERROR OF A WHIMMASICAL AND ARBITRARY GOD-ALLAH. ALLAH steals their personality so they become a shattered individual with almost no hope of regaining their sanity. see what this piolet did!!!!!