Killer of air-traffic controller released
A Russian architect imprisoned for killing an air traffic controller he blamed for the deaths of his wife and two children in a plane collision has been released and returned to his homeland, authorities said.
Vitaly Kaloyev, 51, was convicted in October 2005 of the murder of Danish-born Peter Nielsen, a controller with the Swiss company Skyguide.
Nielsen was the only person on duty when a Bashkirian Airlines plane and a DHL cargo jet collided in July 2002 over Germany.
The crash killed 71 people, most of them schoolchildren.
A Swiss court reduced Kaloyev’s sentence, ruling that he acted with diminished responsibility.
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