Accident Ends in Murder / The Überlingen Mid-air Collision

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🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

A Boeing 757 and a Tupolev Tu-154M collide over southern Germany. Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and DHL Flight 611 are both flying over southern Germany at night. Both crews start getting warnings about a possible collision from their in flight instruments. An Air Traffic Controller also notices that both planes might collide and gives instructions to one of the crews. Both crews take evasive manueuvers but they end up colliding and crashing to the ground. What series of events led to this collision? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by ExpressVPN (http://expressvpn.com/blackboxdown) SoloStove (http://solostove.com and use code BLACKBOXDOWN) and The Jordan Harbinger Show (http://jordanharbinger.com/start) Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Go to blackboxdownpod.com to support us directly Black Box Down Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Tales From The Stinky Dragon: https://link.chtbl.com/stinkydragon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Ruesturzy's production.
0:07.0	July 1, 2002, Bosch Karian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tuplift TU-154M with 69 people on board,
0:17.0	and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757 cargo flight with two people on board, are rapidly converging
0:23.2	with each other in the skies above U-Brilingen in southern Germany.
0:27.2	G-CAS alerts are advising the Tuplift to climb and the DHL Flight to descend, but air traffic
0:32.3	control is telling the Tuplift to descend.
0:34.5	Air traffic control is telling the Tuplift that the DHL Flight is to their right when
0:37.8	in reality it is to their left.
0:39.7	The DHL Flight tries to tell air traffic control they are descending, but their transmissions
0:43.4	are being blocked by the air traffic control discussion with the Tuplift.
0:46.7	The airplanes collide at approximately 35,000 feet with the DHL vertical stabilizer slicing
0:51.7	the Tuplift in half.
0:53.3	Both planes fall to the ground and all on board perish.
0:56.4	How is it possible for two planes to collide while utilizing T-CAS and listening to air
1:00.1	traffic control?
1:01.5	Find out on this episode of Black Boxdown.
1:07.3	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Boxdown.
1:08.9	It's Gus and Chris.
1:09.9	How are you doing, Chris?
1:10.9	I'm doing good.
1:11.9	This is a big episode we're doing today.
1:16.5	It's one that has been requested quite a bit on social media, follows in Black Boxdown
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