The pilot of a hot-air balloon that crashed in UAE killing two people including an Indian has been sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to pay over one lakh dollars in blood money. Court officials have said, Polish pilot, Piotr Gorny, was in charge of the balloon on April 25 as it came in for an emergency landing about 50km outside Al Ain near Abu Dhabi. The tourists Mukesh Shah, 56 of India and Jean-Pierre Chamignon, 53, of France, and were killed as the craft hit the ground and dragged for hundreds of metres. Gorny was also fined 20,000 dirhams.
News On AIR | July 5, 2010 1:10 PM
Balloon crash pilot jailed for a year