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Plane Crash - Mid-Air Collision DHL 757 and Tu-154

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July 1, 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, registration RA-85816, was a Tupolev 154M passenger jet en route from Moscow, Russia to Barcelona, Spain. DHL Flight 611, registration A9C-DHL, was a Boeing 757-200 cargo jet flying from Bergamo, Italy to Brussels, Belgium. The two aircraft collided in mid-air on at 21:35 (UTC) over Überlingen, Germany (near Lake Constance), killing all 71 aboard both aircraft. German investigators determined that the accident had been caused by problems within the air traffic control system[1]; and the controller who was on duty at the time, Peter Nielsen, was later stabbed to death by an architect who lost his wife and both of his children in the accident.

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Plane Crash - Mid-Air Collision DHL 757 and Tu-154

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  • i don't know if i ...

    i don't know if i want to be a pilot anymore

    By dude1165 [Affiliate User] 1202312799 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • that almost gave me ...

    that almost gave me a heart attack!

    By PierreMarie [Affiliate User] 1202018426 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Think Peter already ...

    Think Peter already do at its best since he already 8 years do these job,.but there were too many factor and piece of bad luck sequence caused for this teribble accident
    He didnt deserved to be stabbed actually

    By Jomokb76 [Affiliate User] 1201546908 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • I would have ...

    I would have stabbed him too!

    By Cook1993 [Affiliate User] 1201431847 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Fortunately, ...

    Fortunately, everyone will lose conciousness within seconds so they don't have to experience that.

    By chercle [Affiliate User] 1201333417 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • 2 planes going at ...

    2 planes going at perpendicular direction and hit each other like that was something that chance wouldnt make happen. this was God's will, R.I.P all who died from those, i believe that this incident was just meant to happen .once again RIP

    By LoLatHASIB [Affiliate User] 1201318140 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Yes just imagine ...

    Yes just imagine how horrible when u fall from 32 000 feet,.. have bout 10 minutes b4 u touch the ground,..what a long linger horrible death sequence

    By KingTiger8605 [Affiliate User] 1201136861 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • this is amazing but ...

    this is amazing but,its horrible too

    By brigdedf [Affiliate User] 1201104253 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • scary! i don't want ...

    scary! i don't want to be one of those people

    By papzak99 [Affiliate User] 1200912412 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Peter was Swiss.

    Peter was Swiss.

    By killingamps [Affiliate User] 1200827581 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Actually......., ...

    Actually......., its operational procedure to follow TCAS instructions, the RUSSIAN pilot broke procedure by following ATC. But the ATC didnt know there was a TCAS instruction, because his screen was operating on minimal due to maintenance.

    By whiteb89 [Affiliate User] 1200564035 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • TCAS stands for ...

    TCAS stands for Traffic Collision & Avoiding System. It is a system that tell you (climbing or decline)to prevent a mid air collision.The system are developed because of the tragedy mid air Collision Over LA. Since the use of TCAS,the re is no other mid air collision in US.

    By syuk0R [Affiliate User] 1199883278 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • it wasnt peters ...

    it wasnt peters fault it was the pilots who changed the frenquency to TCAS

    By battlefield2maniac [Affiliate User] 1199819461 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Was the ATC danish ...

    Was the ATC danish ??

    By askedenseje [Affiliate User] 1199772709 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Good. I hope he ...

    Good. I hope he rots and burns. Peter did nothing wrong, RIP all of those who died in the crash :(

    By JoshWithDosh [Affiliate User] 1199714396 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Peter Nielsen hadnt ...

    Peter Nielsen hadnt a bad . That was the dhl pilot he listwén tkas .
    RIP

    By bvbfan090 [Affiliate User] 1199454400 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • What is that weird ...

    What is that weird accent the controller speaks with? He was danish, that ain't no danish accent.!

    By Jazeelan [Affiliate User] 1199431723 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • yer and look what ...

    yer and look what it cost the life of kids who were on a rewode trip

    By shaun1912 [Affiliate User] 1199418414 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • see what happens ...

    see what happens when u follow human instruction and not the planes cpu yeah ppl can b stupid

    By moose6692 [Affiliate User] 1199192026 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • why did the traffic ...

    why did the traffic do that then? it probably says in the video...

    By 1Cmanny1 [Affiliate User] 1199122046 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Anyway, the ATC ...

    Anyway, the ATC controller responsible for the mess was stabbed and killed by one of the parent of one of kids killed in the Tupolev.

    By acheroncyc [Affiliate User] 1199026873 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Because the Tu-154 ...

    Because the Tu-154 pilots where trained to prioritize ATC's orders over TCAS orders.

    By acheroncyc [Affiliate User] 1199026555 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Im going to explain ...

    Im going to explain it to anyone who does not understand.

    TCAS (The automatic system that is meant to avoid collisions) was telling the DHL pilots to decend. So they did. And, at the same time, Bashkirian Airlines flight was given instructions from TCAS to climb. This would have meant the 2 planes would have avoided each other. But Bashkirian Airlines was told from the Air Traffic Controller to decend.

    By JoshWithDosh [Affiliate User] 1198939396 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • is it just me but ...

    is it just me but if u look carefully when the nose of the tuplauve is falling you can see people falling out of the fusalage. Scary S**t that must REALLY F**kING S**k !!

    the two things that make this storey sad is that half of the poeplemwho died were school children between the ages of 10-15 and the ATC person ended up getting murdered by a griefer who lost his whole family in the disaster

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  • You'd be saying it ...

    You'd be saying it too if you were in a 600 kph vertical dive. :-P

    By dmuth [Affiliate User] 1198848696 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
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