Court convicts four over Swiss mid-air plane crash

Four employees of a Swiss air traffic control company were convicted of negligent homicide over a mid-air plane crash that killed 71 people.

A district court in Buelach, near Zurich, sentenced three middle managers to one-year suspended prison terms, while the other employee – a project manager - was ordered to pay a fine of 13,500 Swiss francs (€8,290).