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A French court is due to deliver its verdict on manslaughter charges over a 1992 plane crash that killed 87 people.
The Airbus A320, belonging to Air Inter, crashed on a Lyon-to-Strasbourg flight as it prepared to land.
The six defendants have been on trial since May and face up to two years in prison.
Prosecutors allege the plane, rather than pilot error, was to blame.
A crash inquiry suggested there may have been confusion over controls used to set the speed of descent and that the design of the cockpit may have been flawed.
The victims' families had sued the French government for £9.5m and accused it of dragging its feet over launching a prosecution, but a court threw out the case last month.
:: The defendants are Bernard Ziegler, technical director of Airbus at the time; Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, head of France's civil aviation agency DGAC at the time; Claude Frantzen, head of training at DGAC; two former Air Inter officials; and Eric Lammari, an air traffic controller.