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 southe
RA-85816, the Tupolev Tu-154M involved in the collision, seen at Sharjah International Airport in March 2002
A9C-DHL, the Boeing 757-23APF involved in the collision, seen one week before the collision
Skyguide Air Navigation Center Zürich in Wangen bei Dübendorf
A temporary memorial at Überlingen's Sosa Fountain
Vitaly Kaloyev
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Vitaly Konstantinovich Kaloyev is a Russian former architect who was convicted of the premeditated murder of an air traffic controller after his family died aboard BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937,
2002 Überlingen mid-air collision
…On 24 February 2004, Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller on duty at the time of the collision, was murdered in an apparent act of revenge by Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian architect whose wife and two children died in the accident. BAL Bashkirian Airlines flight BTC2937 was a chartered flight from Moscow, Russia…
Skyguide memorial to the aviation accident and homicide of Peter Nielsen.