Verdict expected in air-traffic-controller killing trial

Final arguments were to be delivered today in the trial of a Russian architect accused of killing the air traffic controller on duty at the time of a midair plane collision in which his wife and two children were lost.

A Zurich Superior Court verdict was expected by this evening in the case of Vitaly Kaloyev, who acknowledged yesterday that he must have killed Peter Nielsen in February 2004, but could not remember the killing.