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Death in Mid-Air

The Überlingen mid-air collision occurred at 23:35 UTC on 1 July 2002 between Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 (a Tupolev Tu-154M passenger jet carrying 57 passengers – mostly children – and twelve crew) and DHL Flight 611 (a Boeing 757-23APF cargo jet manned by two pilots) over the towns of Überlingen and Owingen in southern Germany. All 71 people on board the two aircraft were killed.^[5]

On 19 May 2004, the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation (BFU) published its determination that the accident had been caused by shortcomings in the Swiss air traffic controlsystem supervising the flights at the time of the accident and by ambiguities in the use of TCAS, the on-board aircraft collision avoidance system.^{[BFU 1]}

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On 24 February 2004, Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller on duty at the time of the accident, was stabbed to death by Vitaly Kaloyev.^[6] Kaloyev, an architect, had lost his wife and two children in the accident.^[7][8]

• flygc.info – Air Crash Investigation – S02E04 – Deadly Crossroads (Mid-Air Collision) (A Father’s Revenge)

Contents

• 1 Flights involved
• 2 Accident
• 3 Other factors in the crash
  • 3.1 Deviating statements in the official report
• 4 Consequences
• 5 TCAS and conflicting orders
  • 5.1 Prior incidents
  • 5.2 Unclear instructions for the Bashkirian Airlines crew
  • 5.3 Technical solutions
  • 5.4 Recommendations after the accident
  • 5.5 Notable passengers on Flight 2937
  • 5.6 Murder of Peter Nielsen
• 6 Dramatization
• 7 Related Articles
• 8 References
  • 8.1 official report
• 9 External links
  • 9.1 On conflicting orders