Pilot Who Prayed Instead of Trying to Save Crashing Plane Jailed in Italy
Mar 26th, 2009 | By Jared BlankAn Italian court has sentenced a Tunisian pilot to 10 years in prison for an incident in which 16 people were killed in a plane under his command. The ATR flown by Tuninter (a division of Tunisair) crashed off Sicily in 2005 after the pilot, seeing an issue with a fuel gauge, decided to pray rather than following procedures to fix the problem.
He survived, so perhaps the prayers worked.
Another 5 Tuninter employees were also convicted in the incident.