2002 Überlingen mid-air collision · Lake Constance
On July 1, 2002, 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision (Lake Constance). 71 people died.
- Date
- July 1, 2002
- Place
- Lake Constance
- Operator
- BAL Bashkirian Airlines
- Killed
- 71
- Position
- 47.778°N, 9.174°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q163107
From Wikipedia
On 1 July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, a Boeing 757 cargo jet, collided in mid-air over Überlingen, a southern German town on Lake Constance, near the German-Swiss border. All of the passengers and crew aboard both planes were killed, resulting in a total death toll of 71 including 52 children.
The official investigation by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (German: Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung; BFU) identified the main cause of the collision to be a number of shortcomings on the part of the Swiss air traffic control (ATC) service in charge of the sector involved, as well as ambiguities in the procedures regarding the use of the traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) on board.
On 24 February 2004, Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller on duty at the time of the collision, was murdered in an apparent act of revenge by Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian architect whose wife and two children died in the accident.
Text from Wikipedia, “2002 Überlingen mid-air collision”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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