So these are plane crashes from around the world, but it's only for the countries that had a true crime case, if you don't see a plane crash in here, check my True crime from around the world book.
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These plane crashes take us to the European country of Germany, which is located next to the following countries: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland and Denmark.
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Number 1- The Überlingen Mid air collision
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Pictured above is the first aircraft involved in this mid air collision, photographed in March 2002.
Pictured below is the second aircraft involved in this mid air collision, photographed in June 2002.
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On the 1st of July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154M passenger jet, and DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, a Boeing 757-200 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 the 24th of 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.
BAL Bashkirian Airlines flight BTC2937 was a chartered flight from Moscow, Russia, to Barcelona, Spain, carrying 60 passengers and 9 crew. Forty-six 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 Daurada beach area of Catalonia. 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. They travelled on an overnight train to Moscow and arrived on the 29th of June, then, as their driver accidentally took them to the wrong airport, they missed their original flight. They remained there for two days until the 1st of July in order to find the arranged chartered flight. Flight 2937 departed from Moscow Domodedovo Airport (IATA: DME, ICAO: UUDD) at 22:48pm Moscow Time (18:48pm UTC) bound for Barcelona International Airport (now Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport, IATA: BCN, ICAO: LEBL).
