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.
Warning, this book contains plane crashes and video...
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.
WARNING OF PLANE CRASHES
Number 1- The Überlingen Mid air collision
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Pictured above is the first aircraft involved in this mid air collision.
Pictured below is the second aircraft involved in this mid air collision.
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On the night of the 1st of July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, registered as Romeo Alpha- 85816 (RA-85816), a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and a DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, registered as Alpha 9 Charlie- Delta Hotel Lima (A9H-DHL), a Boeing 757 cargo jet, collided midair over Überlingen, a southern German town on Lake Constance, near the Germany and Switzerland border, all on board the two planes were killed in the crash, which resulted in 71 people being killed.
A year and a half after the crash, on the 24th of February 2004, Peter Nielsen, who was the ATC controller on duty at the time of the crash, was murdered in an act of revenge by Vitaly Kaloyev, he was born on the 15th of January 1956, he is now 67 years old, he was a Russian citizen and an architect whose wife and two children who were killed in the crash, he was sentenced to prison, he was released after two years.
Flight 611 descent rate was not as rapid as the TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) was stating to the crew, the crew on Flight 2937 disregarded their TCAS and they descended as instructed by ATC, both planes were now descending and they were on a collision course, Flight 2937's crew realised their position when they got visual sight of Flight 611, two seconds before the collision, Flight 2937 finally obeyed their TCAS to climb but the collision was now inevitable, the two planes collided at 23:35:32pm CEST (Central European Standard Time, 21:35:32pm UTC), at almost a right angle at 34,890 feet, with Flight 611's vertical stabiliser slicing through Flight 2937's fuselage just infront of the wings, Flight 2937 broke into several pieces, the nose section fell vertically, while the tail section and the engines continued and fell to the ground, Flight 611, now without 80% of it's vertical stabiliser, struggled to fly for 7 kilometres after the collision before it crashed into a wooded area close to Taisersdorf at a 70 degree angle, each engine ended up hundred of meters away from the main wreckage, the rest of the tail was torn by trees before the plane impacted the ground.
The summary of the crash was Mid air collision caused by ATC error, compounded by ambiguity in TCAS operation.
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Pictured above is the memorial at Überlingen.
Below is a video which explains what happened that night, video credit goes to The Flight Channel on Youtube.
Below is another video which also explains what happened that night, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, video is done by Chloe Howie.
Number 2- The 1972 Königs Wusterhausen air disaster.
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Pictured above is a similar type of plane that was involved in this crash.
The 1972 Königs Wusterhausen air disaster occurred on the 14th of August 1972, when an Interflug Ilyushin IL-62, registered as Delta Mike- Sierra Echo Alpha (DM-SEA), crashed shortly after take off from Berlin's Schönefield Airport (IATA: BER, ICAO: EDDB, ETBS), Schönefield, East Germany, the flight was operating as a holiday charter flight to Burgas Airport (IATA: BOJ, ICAO: LBBG), Bulgaria, the accident was caused by a fire in the aft cargo bay, all 156 people on board the plane were killed in the crash, to this date it's the deadliest aviation accident to occur in Germany.
At 16:43pm local time, thirteen minutes into the flight and while at 29,200 feet above Cottbus, the flight crew reported problems with the elevator; the aircraft was approximately 10 degrees off it's planned flight route, the flight crew wanted to return to Schönefield but the situation wasn't critical to land at the nearest airport, at 16:51pm local time a fuel dump was carried out by the crew to decrease the landing weight, meanwhile, flight attendants reported smoke in the rear section of the cabin, with Schönefield Airport in sight a few kilometres south of the airport, the flight crew issued a mayday call at 16:59:25pm local time, indicating problems with controlling the altitude, at this time the crew was unaware that the fire had consumed portions of the rear of the aircraft, a few seconds later the tail section which was weakened by the fire, separated from the aircraft which caused the plane to enter an uncontrolled descent, due to the forces of the dive, the rest of the aircraft broke up in mid air, the debris landed in the town of Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany.
The summary of the crash was an On board fire.
Below is a video which explains what happened that afternoon, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, video is done by Chloe Howie.
