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Old 9th Mar 2004, 01:19
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tom de luxe
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If found guilty in a court of law of criminal negligence or other offences that carry a jail sentence unter Italian law, then why should they not go to jail? Mind you, whether or not the prosecution will get its way is certainly not for me to decide.

However, lots of people here like to point the finger to the "bosses" when something goes wrong and pilots or other front line staff get to carry the blame. Read that story about the charter airline (Italian, by the way) where the owner allegedly fires pilots on duty who refuse to take off due security concerns? So if one of these aircraft goes down one day, are you saying that the boss should be able to walk away because he's "just the Boss"? And why should that not apply to those responsible for LIN (infrastructure and ATC) to have been in the state described rather accurately in the accident report?
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