Heavy accusations against Spain’s Swiftair

French justice accused Spanish airline Swiftair of being behind the crash of Air Algerie plane in 2014.

French news agency AFP reported that judicial investigations showed that pilotes at the Spanish airline did not have sufficient experience.

The company is accused of “Involuntary manslaughter, recklessness, negligence, non-respect of security commitment and carelessness.”

Earlier in July 2014, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 jet which was rent by Air Algerie from Swiftair crashed on a trip from Ouagadougou to Algiers on Northern Mali. A total of 116 people were killed. Of them, there were 54 French, 23 Burkinabe, 8 Lebanese and 6 Algerians. All the Spanish crew members were killed as well.

In April, a French studies and analysis office published an investigation about the accident.

Last year, a technical report submitted by French investigators showed that technical errors were behind the crash.

“The pilots were not prepared for such urgent circumstances. They did not take any additional training. The crew members had not operated the plane for eight months before that trip,” said the report.