Yesterday, on the first of July, at about 11:00 GMT+2, 2 aircrafts colided in Southern Germany.

I heard about this on CNN-TV about 2 hours later, 2 hours after 5:00 Eastern.

One flight was headed to Barcelona, Spain from Munich, Germany. It was carrying numerous grade 9 school students from Moscow, Russia on their way on an end-of-the-year trip. Another flight was from France I believe. I am not certain on this, so anyone may correct my possible error on this. This flight had approximitely 69 on board (57 passenger, 12 crew).

A few dozen seconds before the collision, the non-German flight pilot told the Munich-based flight pilot to dive 10,000 feet or so. Knowing that this pilot shouldn't have English knowledge too easily, it would take seconds to figure out what was meant by this. Moments later, the German pilot told the other aircraft's pilot to also dive. They both got the messages, and dove.

They collided just seconds later, and debris fell just moments later in to a field and a semi-urban land-area.

Please correct any errors that I may have. I think this would have happened someday. Now it has.

What do you think about this?

Very sad news, although it seemed inevitable as many people have predicted such a scenario given the amount of traffic in the skies

It was going to happen someday, and I knew that. To have 2 planes at the same altitude and location within one minute, to collide. It is sad that they never had the time to decide who would dive and who would stay at a straight course; Instead, they both dove and collided in mid-air.

This does not sound like terrorism at all, in my opinion. It's just an unfortunate happening that was going to occur sometime in this century.

Saw this on CNN:
The controller was working alone with an assistant as his partner took a break because of the light air traffic. Five planes were in the sector over southern Germany which they were monitoring at the time, including the two doomed planes.

They're allowed to take a leak, have a smoke, a coffee, so that they can concentrate," Gaberelle said. A "normal" workload for such a team of controllers was between 20 and 40 planes in one sector per hour, Skyguide said.


I hope after this they go back to their normal workload.

Why don't they train pilots to move in a certain direction or something for situations like this. Like tell them to turn left, that way if they both turned left, everything would be avoided. Sort of like the universal S.O.S thing.

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Obviously... :rolleyes: =p