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Eighteen months later he tracked down Peter Nielsen, 36, the air traffic controller he believed was responsible for the crash, and stabbed him to death in front of his family. A court in...
- Bashkirian Airlines Flight Btc2937
- Flight Dhx611
- At Air Traffic Control Centre, Zurich
- They Collide at 11:35:32, at 34,890 Feet
- The Investigation
- The Danger of Blame
- Conclusion
- Sources
Baskortostan, between the Ural Mountains and Volga river, is one of the Russian Federation’s 21 Republics. Its capital is Ufa. Bashkirian Airlines was formed after the break-up of the Soviet airline, Aeroflot. At 8.48pm on 1 July 2002, Bashkirian charter flight BTC2937 took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. It was a Tupolev Tu-154M with three t...
This was a Boeing 757–23APF two-engined cargo plane, built in 1990, registered as A9C-DHL. The crew were: Captain Paul Phillips, aged 47, from Britain, with 12,000 hours flying (5,145 on 757) and First Officer Brant Campioni, aged 34, from Canada, with 6,614 hours flying, (176 on 757). They were both based in Manama, Bahrain, and often worked toget...
At 11.00pm, Peter Nielsen’s colleague goes to bed. This was against regulations but common practice, tolerated by Skyguide and regulatory officials. They considered one controller sufficient at night. Soon after, maintenance technicians arrive, to work on the tower’s radar data processing system. Their work means radar, telephone, and alert systems...
The 757’s vertical stabiliser sheers off as it slices through the Tupolev’s fuselage just in front of the wings. The Bashkirian plane breaks into pieces, and crashes near Überlingen, by the Bodensee, part of Lake Constance. *This is the only location map I could find. It’s in Hebrew, (thank you Lia) but easy to understand. The turquoise line repres...
BFU (German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents) published their report in May 2004, giving two immediate causes: 1. “The imminent separation infringement was not noticed by ATC in time;” relating this to his excessive workload that night. 2. “The Tu-154 crew followed the ATC instruction to descend […] even after TCAS advised them to climb.” They ...
Vitaly Kaloyev was a successful architect with his own construction business. He was working in Barcelona, and awaiting a visit from his wife, Svetlana, and two children, Konstantin and Diana. When he heard about the accident, he flew to Zurich and wandered around the crash site, swearing he would avenge his family’s deaths. Back home, he spent nig...
This is one of many examples of the public and media assuming individual “human error” caused a tragedy, and blaming the last person involved in a long sequence of errors and miscommunications. Like Tenerife, and the Herald of Free Enterprise, the story of Überlingen is more complicated than most people believe. In this case, the emphasis on blame ...
BFU (German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents) Investigation Report, May 2004. https://reports.aviation-safety.net/2002/20020701-1_B752_A9C-DHL_T154_RA-85816.pdf John Daniszewski, Los Angeles Times, “Midair Jet Collision Kills 71” 2 July 2002. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jul-02-fg-nucrash2-story.html Hispaviación (Spain 2012) ht...
Sep 1, 2009 · Abstract. When Danish air traffic controller Peter Nielsen was murdered in 2004 by a Russian who lost his family at the Überlingen mid-air collision, this was only the last point of a big tragedy. 71 people lost their lives when a Boeing B-757 cargo aircraft and a Tupolew TU-154 commercial airliner collided in July 2002 over Germany, close to ...
On February 24, 2004, Peter Nielsen was murdered at his home near Zurich. He was the air traffic controller on duty on July 1, 2002, when the Überlingen mid-air collision occurred, killing 71 people. Among the victims were Svetlana Kaloyeva and her children Konstantin and Diana.
Feb 27, 2004 · A man whose wife, daughter and son died in a mid-air collision has been arrested in Switzerland on suspicion of murdering the air traffic controller in charge at the time to revenge his loss. Vitaly Kaloyev, 48, a Russian, was held at a guesthouse in Zurich a day after Peter Nielsen, 36, was stabbed to death outside his flat.
Nov 13, 2007 · Kaloyev stabbed to death Swiss air traffic controller Peter Nielsen, who was on duty the night of the collision between a cargo plane and a Russian charter transporting mostly Russian children on...
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Feb 10, 2008 · Within two days of the crash, he had tracked down the air traffic controller’s name and neighborhood. He knew that Nielsen had two children, and that his wife was pregnant. In 2004, after a...
