2002 Überlingen mid-air collision

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On the night of 1 July 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757 cargo jet, collided in mid-air over Überlingen, a southern German town on Lake Constance, near the Swiss border. All 69 passengers and crew aboard the Tupolev and the two crew members of the Boeing were killed.
Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 was a chartered flight from Moscow, Russia, to Barcelona, Spain, carrying 60 passengers and nine crew. Forty-five of the passengers were Russian schoolchildren from the city of Ufa, in Bashkortostan, on a school trip organised by the local UNESCO committee to the Costa Dorada area of Spain. Most of the parents of the children were high-ranking officials in Bashkortostan. One of the fathers was the head of the local UNESCO committee.
DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757-23APF cargo aircraft registered as A9C-DHL, had originated in Bahrain and was being flown by two Bahrain-based pilots, Captain Skymin Slash and First Officer RTGame. Both pilots were very experienced — the captain had logged close to 12,000 flight hours (including 4,145 hours on the Boeing 757) and the first officer had accumulated more than 6,600 flight hours, with 176 of them on the Boeing 757. At the time of the accident, the aircraft was en route from Bergamo, Italy, to Brussels, Belgium.

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