Jailed for 10 years, Muslim pilot, Co-pilot, who paused to pray

This may make some waves yet.

I am trying to read the accounts in La Repubblica, one of the best Italian newspapers and one that allows you to read the archives.

So, far, I don't know the particulars. That video, though, I want to listen to. It has the whole thing.

You have the wrong gauge, a contraband version of it, and how come when the plane was refueled that no one noticed that less fuel went in than usual?

Italian newspapers don't like paragraphing off the page. Difficult to read.

The jail for praying ? When it is mechanical failure.A think i would pass out never mind pray.So the mechanics are getting slack. Perhaps the pilots should be called fall guys after all if someones to get the blame why not the pilots,another one down I said about the dutch plane crash there does seem to be a lot of crashes these days the air seems to be less safe than the roads. God love the passengers.

That's why I never fly airlines with muslim pilots. It is worth re-capping their past exploits: the recent crash in Amsterdam of Turkish airlines, or the Egypt Air flight that went down because the pilot decided to scream 'allah akhbar' and do a jihad thing. Think about it: would you want Captain Sully, or Captain 'maybe the plane stays in the air en shallah' Muhammed?

Wow really a good story.

Guess these guys cant pray and fly a plane at the same time?  What is it, like prayers 5 times a day?  Perhaps they should have chosen another profession, like ground work!

Astounding story and verdict. Thanks Roy.

Redicilously written and redicilously sentenced. First of all they did not disrupt the emergency procedures to pray, as you can hear from the recordings. They only made some shorter prayers simultaneously. And you idiots that compare the Captain Sully ditch to this one are redicilous as well. The Hudson River has no waves, which makes it much easier, compared to the Mediterranean Sea where the waves were about 2 meters high at the time of the crash. Don't get me wrong, Captain Sully is a hero, but these guys are too! Actually after the crash the Tunisian pilots were honoured for their actions. Please stop being so foolish whenever you here something about muslims.

this is really rediculeous!!

 it is absurd to read that pilots sentenced because they were praying instaed of making emergencies!! how can you belive that!! you readers are very stupid...whenever you hear sth about islam and moslems you start to beleive everything and never try to look for the truth..

first of all the pilots were not praying ..this is not true ...what they did was the right thing..they tried to save the plane from crush intil the last minutes of their lives..and when they got hopless and at the exact time of  the crush they were calling god saying " besmellah besmellah"
 which means "under the name of god" ..it is like when u say .".godness godness."..do you think those 2 words prevented the pilots from saving the plane?!!! this is absurd and very very stupid!!  this is unfair!! the pilots were heros ..and they should be honored !

stop beliving in bull shiit!!

This is just another misleading story.

The word prayer coupled with Muslims will most certainly invoke images of men bowing down in prostration which would obviously be a very negligent thing to do in this situation but this is obviously not the case here. From the video clip above it's clear that the pilot was in command at all times and he only invoked supplications to GOD while still going through the emergency procedures, I mean it was very clear that he and his co-pilot were going through the "ditch" emergency procedure.

Muslims have traditional sayings and supplications that they do and say in lots of common situations such opening the house door, driving a car, after eating, before sleeping etc let alone in urgent or distressed situations. If the headline was “Western pilot paused to curse before taking emergency measures” I’m sure some of you will find it absurd.

This does not take away the fact that there was gross negligence on the part of the airline and its mechanics which unfortunately cost lives in this case and should definitely be persecuted but to blame this whole incident on the actions of the pilot which were grossly misinterpreted is non-sense. Maybe the media was just selling the sort of hype that some of the earlier commentators fell for.

Roy, you are an idiot, you should check your facts before writing such a stupid article. You have none of the facts. Roy, if you are about to dive from 10,000 feet into the ocean, and you are facing certain death wouldn't you pray, whatever religion you have christian, jewish or boudhist for that matter. So stop this nonsense of always portraying muslims as nutcases always willing to die.  In fact these pilots are Tunisians, and how the hell did you know they are muslims anyway?