Swiss military jet crash: public prosecutor seeks suspended prison sentences

Over seven years after the fatal F/A-18 military jet accident in Switzerland, an air traffic controller and a chief pilot have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. The prosecutor called for suspended prison sentences for both of them. On the second day of the military trial into the fatal crash of an F/A-18 military jet in 2016 on the Susten Pass, the air traffic controller accused of negligent homicide said that he had realised too late that an altitude error had been passed on to the pilot and referred to "a high level of stress". The Skyguide air traffic controller based in Meiringen, in canton Bern, where the patrol of two F/A-18 jets had taken off on August 29 2016, mistakenly assigned an inadequate minimum altitude to the 27-year-old pilot. Unfortunately, in poor visibility conditions, the pilot crashed into a rock face. The instructed minimum altitude was 10,000 feet (3048 meters) instead of the required 15,000 feet (4572 meters). "I suppose I made a slip of the...