Air Traffic Controller’s Killer Gets 8-Year Term
A Russian architect whose family died when two planes collided was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison for killing an air traffic controller who was on duty at the time of the 2002 crash.
The Zurich Superior Court found Vitaly Kaloyev guilty of premeditated homicide in the stabbing death of air traffic controller Peter Nielsen. It was a lesser charge than murder and carries a maximum of 20 years in prison under Swiss law.
Kaloyev, 49, acknowledged in court that he must have killed the controller but said he could not remember doing it.
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