Court issues verdict compensating family for paratrooper’s death

The family of a Czech paratrooper who died testing a new parachute for the army is to get four million crowns in compensation from the Defence Ministry, the Prague Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The paratrooper was killed after the cord of his parachute got stuck and he failed to open the reserve parachute in time. An expert investigating the accident said the tests had been poorly prepared.