NSFW..Weak stomach? Don't watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H64xyAfWGBU
Among them were the co-pilots of the doomed Sukhoi-27 aircraft, lead pilot Volodymyr Toponar and Yurii Yegorov. Miraculously, they ejected from the plane after failing to pull out of a difficult diving maneuver and walked away from the carnage physically unscathed.
They left in their wake not only the dead, among them 28 children, but also 292 injured victims in what became the worst air show catastrophe in history. (Unofficial estimates of the injured reached as high as 500.)
On June 24 a three-judge panel led by Vitalii Zahoruyka laid blame for the catastrophe upon the pilots and their commanders, determining that they were careless in handling their military responsibilities.
The court found four defendants guilty of failing to execute orders, negligence and violating flight rules.
Mr. Toponar received a 14-year prison sentence and his co-pilot, Mr. Yegorov, received an eight-year sentence. Prosecutors had asked for 15 years' imprisonment for Mr. Toponar.
The judges also sentenced the head of flight operations that day, Gen. Anatolii Tretiakov, to six years' imprisonment and his deputy head of flight operations, Yurii Yatsiuk, to five years. Safety director Anatolii Lukynykh received a suspended four-year sentence.
Determining that technical problems did not cause the catastrophe, the court acquitted Anatolii Dziubetskyi, commander of the military division responsible for the SU-27's condition, citing an "absence of actions in the crime's make-up."
That ruling was among several that surprised the courtroom audience. Another was the damages awarded on behalf of each dead and injured victim.
Most relatives weren't even aware of how the court determined the damages, and they complained the awards were relatively meager.
"Ten thousand hryvni - is that money? It's not even $2,000 (U.S.)," said Irene Reshetilova, whose grandson, a 4-year-old American citizen named Nikita Bastrakov, suffered psychological damage during the Sknyliv tragedy.
"(Relatives of) those who died received either 35,000 or 200,000 hrv ($7,000 or $40,000)," Ms. Reshetilova said. "We don't understand their grading system."
Yikes thats sad 
