FOUR SWISS CONTROLLERS CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196075)
In the continuing fallout from a 2002 midair collision in
Swiss-controlled airspace in which 71 people died, four air
traffic control managers on Wednesday were convicted of
manslaughter, Reuters reported

(http://www.reuters.com/article/world...?pageNumber=2).
The judge said the managers were responsible for ensuring that at
least two controllers were on duty at all times, and the collision
could have been averted if any one of them had acted to prevent
the second controller on duty from taking a coffee break. That
left just one controller working at the time of the collision. The
lone controller was later killed by a Russian man who lost his
wife and two children in the crash.