Hapag-Llloyd Airbus pilot charged...
From this morning's German paper (loose translation from a 'dpa' dispatch):
3 1/2 years after a forced landing in Vienna a charge has been raised by the public prosecutor's office in Hanover, Germany against the captain of the Airbus involved.
The pilot has been charged with hazardous operation for choosing to continue to Vienna rather than diverting to Zagreb (the nearest airport) when cockpit indications showed a fuel shortage on a flight from Crete to Hanover.
The aircraft ran out of fuel and glided the last 20 kilometres to make an off-runway landing at Vienna next to the runway. 13 people sustained minor injuries in the emergency landing.
The captain declined an offer from the prosecutor's office to accept a ten-month probation so that this matter has now come to trial.