Paris court hands ex-Thai airline CEO 4-year jail term over 2007 crash

PARIS: A French court on Tuesday sentenced the former head of a Thai budget airline to four years in jail over a 2007 crash that killed 90 people, nearly two-thirds of them foreigners.

But despite an international warrant for his arrest, Tantiprasongchai has never been detained and did not respond to the French judicial summons, and was tried in absentia. The victims' families accused the airline of trying to cover up a series of failings which led to the crash, including overworked pilots and falsified flight logs.In its ruling, the court found evidence of"mistakes" by the pilots but also faulted the airline, saying the crew"did not have the capacity to react correctly ... because of their fatigue and stress."

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