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  • Crash pilot who paused to pray is convicted
     OP - March 28, 2009, 04:36 AM
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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.


    Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52N63B20090325

    Hmmm...let this be a lesson to other pilots.

    One of my pilot friends is a strict Catholic (actually, he isn't very strict at all...he follows the church but has sex and does everything else like that...the religion is more of a convenience to him...) We had a huge discussion about religion the other night and he started saying that physics and science (including the law of gravity) are bullshit.... Cheesy
  • Re: Crash pilot who paused to pray is convicted
     Reply #1 - March 28, 2009, 09:12 AM
    I've been to Egypt a few months ago and there was an Islamic prayer broadcast inside the aeroplane. There was also a copy of the Quran in a glass case, I guess it was reserved for emergency cases.

     Cheesy Cheesy
    Islam: where idiots meet terrorists.
  • Re: Crash pilot who paused to pray is convicted
     Reply #2 - March 28, 2009, 10:14 AM
    Haha!  I've flown on PIA.  If ever there was a need for prayers it is definitely when you are flying in an old Fokker Friendship through a sandstorm in Southern Pakistan on a PIA flight.
    Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

    The sleeper has awakened -  Dune

    Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish!
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