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Old 24th Mar 2009, 23:12
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Pilot who paused to pray in crash-landing sentenced to 10 years in jail

...A fuel-gauge malfunction was partly to blame but prosecutors said the pilot had succumbed to panic, praying out loud instead of following emergency procedures and then opting to crash-land the plane instead trying to reach a nearby airport...
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