Russian Man Kills Air Traffic Controller After Family Dies In Crash
People deal with the death of family members in different ways. Some seek solace in their surviving friends and loved ones. Some look to whatever God they believe in for comfort and guidance. Some throw loud, raucous wakes for the departed, choosing to celebrate life rather than dwell on death. And some, like Vitaly Kaloyev…well, they go apeshit..
Mr. Kaloyev lost his wife and two daughters in a plane crash back in 2002. So he did what any bereft father and husband would - spent the next two years of his life plotting and carrying out a vendetta against the air traffic controller on duty at the time of the crash. To his credit, Mr. Kaloyev did file a compliant with Skyguide, the air service presumably responsible for the crash. Guess he wasn’t happy with the form letter and Frequent Flyer miles they sent back.
Puzzling, though, is the sentence handed down to Vitaly. 12 years for premeditated homicide - the crime “fell short of murder” because “there was no malice”. Um - searching for a guy for two years and then stabbing him several dozen times seems a bit, well, malicious, no?
(ETA because I can’t spell “solace”)
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