Russian accused of killing air traffic controller

A Russian man accused of stabbing the air traffic controller who was on duty when his wife and two children were killed in a mid-air collision arrived in court today for the first day of his trial for premeditated murder.

Swiss prosecutors say Vitaly Kaloyev killed the controller as revenge for his role in the July 2002 plane crash that killed 71 people over southern Germany, an area run by Swiss air traffic control authorities.