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Suicide by pilot is an aviation event in which a pilot deliberately crashes or attempts to ... There was no response to repeated calls from air traffic controllers ...
Kaloyev held Peter Nielsen (16 August 1967 – 24 February 2004), the sole air traffic controller in Switzerland who was handling traffic the night of the collision, responsible. In 2004, Kaloyev travelled to the Swiss town of Kloten, where he killed Nielsen, who had since retired from his air traffic control job at Skyguide.
The descent time from 38,000 ft was about 10 minutes; radar observed an average descent rate around 3,400 ft/min (58 ft/s (18 m/s)). [14] Attempts by French air traffic control to contact the flight on the assigned radio frequency were not answered. A French military Mirage jet was scrambled from the Orange-Caritat Air Base to intercept the ...
By Joan Lowy WASHINGTON (AP) -- Errors by air traffic controllers in the vicinity of airports as well as incidents in which there was an unauthorized plane, vehicle, or person on a runway have ...
A United States Air Force Boeing E-3C Sentry, 83-0008, while returning from the Red Flag Exercise 09–5 with the 552d Air Control Wing from Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, made a forced landing at Nellis Air Force Base. Due to a fire the aircraft was damaged and the crew of 32 were safely evacuated and the fire extinguished by Nellis AFB ...
The Violence Policy Center analyzed data from Jan. 1-June 30, 2021, finding there were 258 murder-suicide events resulting in 588 murder-suicide deaths, of which 258 were suicides and 330 were ...
Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents caused by air traffic controller error" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A safety report said the employee, who was working from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., was found by a colleague who arrived at work at 5:15 a.m.