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On 1 July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, a Boeing 757 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 ...
2002 Shangri-La Air Twin Otter crash; Sknyliv air show disaster; Swiss International Air Lines Flight 850; T. ... 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision
This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving mid-air collisions. [1] [2] [3] In aviation, a mid-air collision is an accident in which two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight. Owing to the relatively high velocities involved and the likelihood of subsequent impact with the ground or sea, very severe damage ...
Southwest Air Lines Flight 611, landing accident, 1982 – pilot error, runway overrun; China Airlines Flight 611, crashed 2002, with 225 deaths – poor repairs; DHL Flight 611, in the Überlingen mid-air collision, 2002 – ATC shortcomings; Air India Express Flight 611, tail strike and antenna collision on takeoff, 2018 – captain seat failure
CGI rendering of the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision In aviation , a mid-air collision is an accident in which two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight . [ 1 ] Owing to the relatively high velocities involved and the likelihood of subsequent impact with the ground or sea, very severe damage or the total destruction of ...
— Aug. 27, 2016 — A pilot from Alaska was killed when his 450 Stearman biplane, a World War II-era plane often used for military training, crashed during the Airshow of the Cascades in Madras ...
The crash happened on Nov. 12, 2022, when a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63F Kingcobra, a fighter plane, both from the World War II era, collided at the Wings Over Dallas airshow. Six ...
2002 Überlingen mid-air collision: On July 1, 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154M (registered as RA-85816) was on a charter flight from Moscow, Russia to Barcelona, Spain. The plane was flying over southern Germany when it collided with a DHL International Boeing 757-200PF , flying from Bergamo, Italy, to Brussels, Belgium ...