New Charges on Way in Gondola Case
From Times Wire Reports
The pilot of a Marine jet that severed a ski gondola cable in the Italian Alps, killing 20 people, will be arraigned on a second set of charges Monday, the Marine Corps said. Capt. Richard J. Ashby, 30, of Mission Viejo, Calif., will be asked by a military judge at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in North Carolina to enter a plea on new charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice stemming from the Feb. 3 incident. Ashby and his navigator, Capt. Joseph P. Schweitzer, 30, of Westbury, N.Y., will be tried beginning Feb. 4.
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