Peruvian jet crash findings

A judge in Peru has passed a suspended two-year jail sentence on an aircraft engineer found guilty of negligence following the crash of a Peruvian airliner in 1996.

The engineer was head of the maintenance crew responsible for the Aeroperu Boeing 757.

The airline was ordered to pay compensation to families of the victims.

Seventy people were killed when the plane crashed into the Pacific shortly after taking off from Lima on a flight to Santiago in Chile.

Four other maintenance workers were acquitted.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service