Originally Posted by
Cecco
In the end, a fine of 10'000 CHF had to be paid...
That sounds very expensive to me. I know of at least two such occurrences at Zürich within my company and the fines were 1,000 CHF each time, paid by the company. I am not aware of any disciplinary actions against the crews involved - but those things are not done openly, and as long as the parties involved do not talk about it no one will ever know.
In my previous company I once flew into a military airspace whilst involved in aerial work and was fined 1000 Euros which I had to pay myself. I didn't argue about it because it was clearly my own stupid mistake.