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Old 16th Apr 2008, 17:51
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High court finds air traffic controllers guilty over JAL near miss accident

Knowing that "the search function is my friend" (thanks Jerrico), I've taken a look around venerable PPRuNe, but have not yet seen this reported...

The Tokyo High Court has found the two ATCers involved in the 2001 JAL near-miss guilty of "professional negligence resulting in injury" and sentenced them to (suspended) jail time.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news...na013000c.html

I considered posting this in a criminalization or related thread, but thought it might better foster discussion on its own. This sort of reaction to a callsign screw-up cannot bode well for our chosen profession...

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