Publisher's Synopsis
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident, Adrian Dalsey, AeroLogic, Airborne Express, Air Hong Kong, Astar Air Cargo, DHL Aero Expreso, DHL Air UK, DHL Aviation, DHL Balloon, DHL de Guatemala, DHL Ecuador, DHL Exel Supply Chain, DHL Express, DHL Freight, DHL Global Forwarding, DHL Hometown Heroes, DHL International Aviation ME, European Air Transport, European Air Transport Leipzig, Larry Hillblom, Major League Baseball Delivery Man Award, Uberlingen mid-air collision. Excerpt: The Uberlingen mid-air collision occurred at 23:35 UTC on 1 July 2002 between Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 (a Tupolev Tu-154M passenger jet carrying 60 passengers - mostly children - and 9 crew) and DHL Flight 611 (a Boeing 757-23APF cargo jet manned by two pilots) over the towns of Uberlingen and Owingen in southern Germany. All 71 people on board the two aircraft were killed. On 24 February 2004, Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller on duty at the time of the accident, was stabbed to death by Vitaly Kaloyev. Kaloyev, an architect, had lost his wife and two children in the accident. On 19 May 2004, the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation (BFU) published its determination that the accident had been caused by shortcomings in the Swiss air traffic control system supervising the flights at the time of the accident and by ambiguities in the use of TCAS, the on-board aircraft collision avoidance system. Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 was a chartered flight from Moscow, Russia to Barcelona, Spain, carrying sixty passengers and nine crew. Forty-five of the passengers were Russian schoolchildren from Bashkortostan on a school trip organized by the local UNESCO committee to the Costa Daurada area of Spain. Most of the parents of the children were high-ranking officials in Bashkortostan, Russia. One of the..."
