Air controllers' 'soccer break'
Evening Standard13 April 2012
More than 60 air traffic controllers in Italy face jail after they skipped work to play football.
The mass trial of 61 controllers has heard they were on the pitch while others covered for them at their radar screens at Linate airport, Milan, as hundreds of flights passed overhead.
Police found out about the mass absenteeism after a tipoff. The men were arrested and charged with fraud. A verdict is expected next month.
