12h 35min, jul 2, 2002 y - 2002 Überlingen Mid-air Collision
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Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 was a passenger flight carrying 69 people, most of them children on a school trip. The flight from Moscow would land in Barcelona. The front half of the plane, including the nose, was cut off by Flight 611's vertical stabiliser. This resulted in the plane entering a nose-dive (without the nose) and crashing into the ground.
DHL Flight 611 was a cargo flight being piloted by 2 people. The flight was from Bahrain with a stopover in Bergamo and then ends in Brussels. The plane lost it's vertical stabiliser after colliding with Flight 2937, which caused the plane to fall out of the sky.
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12h 35min, jul 2, 2002 y
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~ 22 years ago