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Guido_Ostkamp Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "Aircrash" 07-02-02, 21:24z  Hi, just in case you have missed the sad news: There has happened a severe aircrash near southern Germany's Lake Bodensee yesterday about 21:40 Z (23:40 local time). A russian charter aircraft with about 60-70 people, mainly teenagers on a vacation trip to Spain, hit a DHL cargo freighter coming from Arabia. The aircrafts exploded and debris fell down in about a radius of 30km around the suspected crash site. Luckily no one on the ground was injured although large aircraft parts had hit the ground only a few meters from the buildings. All passengers and crew are considered to be dead. At first, it was assumed that the russian aircraft did not react in a timely manner on an order of swiss air control center to change the altitude. Latest news however seem to say that at least one of two controllers in the control center has had a break at the time of the crash and that the order for changing altitude might have come too late (only 50 seconds before the crash). It further seems, that at least one plane if not both had activated their automatic traffic approach warnings and tried an emergency descent which brought them on collision course again. Regards, Guido -OLR.PL v1.76- Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Aircrash    Guido_Ostkamp       07-02-02              RE: Aircrash    jonahbird       07-02-02       1         RE: Aircrash    Ben_Chiu       07-02-02       2            RE: Aircrash    Guido_Ostkamp       07-03-02       3            RE: Aircrash    James       07-03-02       4         RE: Aircrash    Guido_Ostkamp       07-12-02       5            RE: Aircrash    Ben_Chiu       07-12-02       6

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