A plane crash over the Lake Constance that occurredin 2002, a tragedy that claimed the lives of one hundred and forty people. The largest collision of two aircraft in the air was due to a dispatcher's error, whose life soon also broke.
The Russian plane belonged to the company"Bashkir Airlines". It was almost new, since the year of its release in 1995. Twice leased to foreign airlines, but on January 15, 2002, he returned to his native penates.
The crew of the ship was quite experienced. Commander - A.M. Gross (fifty two years old) - flew 12070 hours. The first pilot of this aircraft was in May 2001, before that served as co-pilot.
In the cockpit except for the FAC was also M. A. Itkulov, who had worked in Bashkiravia for eighteen years. He was the second pilot of this vessel since April 2001.
The navigator was SG Harlov, probably the most experienced member of the crew. The airline has worked for twenty-seven years already, flying almost 13,000 hours.
In the cockpit there was a flight engineer O.I. Valeev, as well as the inspector - О.P. Grigoriev (pilot of the first class). The latter was on the spot of the co-pilot and watched the actions of Gross.
Four cabin attendants worked in the cabin. The most experienced was Olga Bagina, who spent 1,454 hours in the sky.
Thus, a plane crash over the Lake Constance killed nine crew members.
On board the airliner were sixty people. All of them died.
The most terrible news of that day was a plane crash over the Lake Constance. The list of the dead spoke louder than all the media, because fifty-two passengers were children whose lives had only just begun.
Almost all the people flying were from the capital of Bashkortostan- Ufa. Almost all the dead children were children of high-ranking officials of the republic (for example, the daughter of the head of the presidential administration of Bashkiria, the daughter of the deputy minister for culture, the son of the director of the Iglinsky plant, and others).
The list of victims of the plane crash over the Lake Constance was supplemented by Ekaterina Pospelova (born in 1973), who was the deputy dean of the social and humanitarian faculty for educational work.
The other passengers also belonged to the eliteBashkiria, for example, Svetlana Kaloyeva, deputy general director of the Daryal Combine. She flew with two children to meet with her husband, who worked in Spain.
The plane crash above the Lake Constance became the largest for Bashkortostan. Mourning in the republic lasted three days.
This aircraft was produced in 1990 and among the other ships of its airline was the oldest (flew more than 39,000 hours).
In 1996, the plane was bought by a freight company and used to transport documentation and other materials.
In the ill-fated day at the helm sat an EnglishmanPaul Phillips, forty-seven years old. He was quite an experienced pilot. The company worked for thirteen years. As commander of an aircraft - since 1991.
The second pilot was Brent Cantioni from Canada.
Since the aircraft was a cargo plane, it was only two crew members, whose lives and carried out a plane crash over the Lake Constance.
Пассажиры рейса 2937 летели из Москвы в Барселону.For most of the children, this trip was an encouragement for excellent study and extracurricular activities. I paid for these deadly holidays. Committee for UNESCO. The head of the Committee lost his daughter in this flight.
Надо сказать, что вокруг этого полета шумиха began far before departure from Ufa. Almost all high-ranking officials sought to get a place for their children on the plane, so that some "ordinary citizens" this power of power saved their lives. For example, a journalist L. Sabitova and her daughter of six years were supposed to sit down in that ill-fated plane. Director of the travel company, which organized this trip, as a fee for the article promised Sabitova permits to Spain. But on the last day everything was canceled, explaining it by pressure from above. The seats of the journalist and her child were taken by the children of the top leadership of Bashkortostan.
A fatal flight might not have been, but the groupBashkir schoolchildren were late for their plane. The airline, realizing the importance of passengers, quickly organized an additional one. He was also sold eight tickets directly to Moscow.
The Boeing 757 flew on a scheduled cargo flight fromOf Bahrain to Brussels. Prior to the collision, he had already made an intermediate landing at Bergamo. An air crash (2002) over the Lake Constance occurred half an hour after their take-off from the Italian land.
At the time of the collision, both aircraft were inairspace of Germany. Despite this circumstance, the movement in the sky was ruled by a Swiss company. On that night shift at work there were only two dispatchers, one of whom left his workplace shortly before the catastrophe.
Since Peter Nielsen was in charge alone and had to follow several airways, he did not immediately notice that the two planes were moving towards each other in the same echelon.
KVS TU-154 was the first to notice an object in the sky,moving in their direction. He decided to decline. Approximately at the same time, Nilsen came on the link, who also gave an indication of a decline. However, he did not provide the necessary information to another board, which is in dangerous proximity.
On "Boeing" the signal "Dangerous rapprochement" has worked andgave a command to decline. In parallel, on the TU-154, the same signal was ordered to gain altitude. The pilot of "Boeing" began to decline, the pilot TU-154, acting on the orders of the dispatcher, too.
Nielsen also misled the crew of the Russianplane, giving incorrect information about the location of the Boeing. The planes collided at 21:35:32 almost at right angles. At 21:37 the wreckage of the aircraft fell to the ground in the vicinity of Überlingen.
An air crash (2002) over the Lake Constance was visible from the ground. Some, seeing two fireballs in the sky, decided that it was a UFO.
To clarify the causes of the tragedy took a specialcommission. It was created by the German Federal Bureau, which conducts an investigation of air crashes. Two aircraft collided over Lake Constance, all passengers were killed. The report of this commission was announced only two years later.
Among the main reasons called incorrectthe actions (and rather inaction) of the dispatcher and the crew error of the TU-154, which ignored the system of automatic warning of dangerous rendezvous, completely submitting to Peter Nielsen.
The wrongful actions of SkyGuide, which was involved in air traffic control, were also noted. The management should not have allowed only one dispatcher to be on duty at night.
On the ill-fated night in the control room did not work telephone, as well as equipment (radar), which warns of a possible approach of the aircraft.
All these facts were taken into account by the commission, which conducts an investigation of air crashes.
Clash over Lake Constance caused a largeresonance not only in society, but also in the entire flight control system. Because, if the crew of the TU-154 acted on the orders of the warning system, the tragedy would not have happened. However, in the regulatory documents such a system was called ancillary, that is, the dispatcher's instructions were priority. After the incident, it was decided to make the appropriate changes in flight management.
July 1, 2002 there was a plane crash over Lake Constance. The list of the dead included Svetlana Kaloyeva and her two children Kostya and Diana. The family flew to Barcelona, where their father Vitaly was.
The man was one of the first to arrive at the scene of the tragedy and personally helped to find the remains of his favorite people.
In February 2004, Kaloev was arrested on suspicionin the murder of Peter Nielsen, the same dispatcher. A man was mortally wounded on the threshold of his house in Zurich. Vitaly did not admit his guilt, but confirmed that he had visited Peter in order to get an apology for what he had done.
Kaloev was sentenced to eight years in prison. In November 2007, the man was released early and deported to Russia.
The plane crash over Lake Constance, the reconstruction of which proved the illegal actions of the dispatcher, caused loud trials.
Thus, the company "Bashkir Airlines" filed a lawsuit intrial on SkyGuide, and then on Germany. The charges were that neither side had taken the necessary measures to ensure traffic safety in the airspace.
The court ruled that Germany bearsresponsibility for what happened, since the country had no right to transfer the overseas company to the Department of Internal Affairs. The conflict between the country and the airline was resolved only in 2013 extrajudicially.
SkyGuide was found guilty of a plane crash over Lake Constance. The list of perpetrators consisted of four people, one of which cost only a fine.
At the site of the fall of the aircraft, a monument was erected in the form of a torn pearl thread.
In Zurich, from where the aircraft were controlled, the control room was always decorated with fresh flowers in memory of the victims.
The memorial to those killed in a plane crash over Lake Constance was erected in Ufa, in the cemetery where their remains lie.
