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Linate accident: Zacchetti is the "Whipping boy"

Milan, Italy - Barrister Cicolella said that in his speech

Yesterday there were the speech of advocate Cesare Cicolella, barrister of the flight controller, Paolo Zacchetti, who was sentenced to 8 reclusion years in first degree for Linate accident which caused the death of 118 people on October 8 2001 because of the collision of two airplanes on the runway. In the second degree trial, the attorney general, Salvatore Sinagra, asked for punishment reduction...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 141679
Rome, Italy, 05/26/2006 14:40
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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