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Paris court finds Swiftair guilty over 2014 Mali crash that killed 116
Spain's Swiftair was fined 225,000 euros in France for corporate manslaughter over 2014 Air Algerie disaster in Mali.
Al Jazeera•
A Paris court has found Swiftair guilty of corporate manslaughter over the 2014 Air Algerie crash that killed 116 people in northern Mali.
On Monday, a French judge ordered the Spanish airline to pay the maximum fine in France of 225,000 euros ($256,000) for corporate manslaughter after a three-week trial earlier this year.
Air Algerie Flight AH5017 was flying from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria when it crashed less than an hour after takeoff in July 2014, killing everyone on board.
On Monday, the court said “negligence” in Swiftair’s training with icy conditions had played a role.