4 Convicted in 2001 Plane Collision
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A Milan court found four aviation officials guilty of manslaughter and sentenced them each to a maximum of eight years in jail on charges involving Italy’s worst air disaster, which killed 118 people.
All 104 passengers and six crew on the Copenhagen-bound SAS plane were killed Oct. 8, 2001, when it collided with a private Cessna jet in heavy fog on a runway at Milan’s Linate airport. The Cessna’s two German pilots and two Italian passengers were killed. Four airport workers also died when the SAS plane plowed into a baggage hangar.
Investigators uncovered shortcomings at Linate, including the lack of a working ground radar system at an airport regularly shrouded in fog.
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