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  • 4:40 "International rules prevent him from talking to the pilots directly"

    JUST FUCKING DO IT

  • The sader thing was, there was a wife and daughter of a man on that Russian plane, it was that's man only family of his generation, so he murdered the ATC :(

  • 8:21 - 8:32 The Tu-154m literally distinergrates when the DHL plane clips its underbelly. R.I.P. everyone on both planes!!!

  • i hope atc remembers this there whole life and carry the guilt that he killed all those people along with the other pilot that was trying to land while those planes were about to crash

  • @thenoobcando

    what are you talking about?

  • what a sad story...

  • Man I felt sorry for Peter...I can only imagine what kind of crushing guilt he must have felt, even tough it wasnt his fault... =(

    And the fact that he got killed by Vitali Konstantinovitš (who lost his wife and child in the accident) two years later, made this tradegy even more sad =(

  • @Balnazzardi do you mean that the controller Peter did the thing every controller should do?

  • type in "ski crashes" in the youtube search and click the video with stars in the title to be shocked!

  • KAAA BOOOMM

  • They are wrong, Peter Nielson went back to work at Skynet after the court case was supposedly settled. They offered the Russians $15,000. Euros per dead child. Peter Nielson allowed his employees to nap while the main flight controller system was down for maintenance and while they were using a back up with limited capability. He blamed the Russian pilots for ignoring TCAS

    following his insistence they descend into the path of the DHL.

    He is to blame.

  • @jdollinter No he isnt. He allowed his employees to take a nap before he even knew that maintenance is coming, and also unexpected maintenance is fault of the company, not Nielson. And he blamed no one, official investigation team blamed russian pilots from not obeying TCAS, as TCAS always has bigger priority than controller, so if controller tells you to descend and TCAS to climb you should climb.

  • Lessons to all controllers:Don't eat food with nice taste and smell if u don't wanna brush ur teeth.Pilots will get ur attention XD

  • @HuasoPodrido yah ur rite

  • LFAOOOO AT 8:40 HAHAHAHAHA I LUAGHEDDD SO FUCKING HARDDD

  • @troll2282 Why?

  • @troll2282 U sir are a cruel and uncaring person! Laughing at an air disaster sheesh moran!

  • @killieguyno1 lol u order a parcel

  • lol the russian pilot said fuck

  • damn dhl my parcel is lost

  • God damn it i lost the lotto....

  • Classic case of too many monkeys on the football and no one taking the initiative to run with it. It's simply sad that 6 professionals in two cockpits and another on the ground, mixed in with a little technology, couldn't overcome the 1 in a billion chance that these two aircraft would occupy the same minuscule amount of airspace at the exact same moment. The human mind at times, no matter how much we marvel at its abilities, can be our own worst enemy. May all rest in peace forever.

  • Realistically, the controller was probably bored out of his mind and slacking off. Probably fell asleep or something.

  • Sadly... TCAS was right all the time....

  • I still can't watch this withouth shitting my pants. Believe I'm no fucking pussy, I can watch any toher episode just fine. I even can laugh at times about how stupid the pilots were killing everyone onboard *cough* Birgenair Flight 301 *cough*

    But this... is just horrible. The way this happened, it was just a typical situation of: "when you walk on the street and you try to evade a man but the man tries to evades you the same side and again you try go go to the other side but its to late"

  • By far... THE MOST TERRIFYING Plane crash ever.

    I'm a hardcore simmer and watched every episode of ACI. This episode rings alarm... There are still NO proper rules wether to follow TCAS Actions or ATC.

  • @sonicfan7 NO proper rules wether to follow TCAS Actions or ATC? WHAT? Where did you get that info? Before this accident took place, pilots around the world MUST comply with TCAS, as this system interacts with other TCAS. One TCAS "questions" the other TCAS and and order is issued to both traffics. 1st TCAS action, then pilots inform the ATC they have a Resolution Advisory. I don't know where did you get that.... its completly wrong

  • @juyg7h8yh Well that's what i've heard on several forums. Anyway that ATC was an idiot, not monitoring a conflict situation. Just wtf, every ATC is trained to monitor it until it is clear of conflict. But that ATC management sucked aswell. Russian pilots failed to inform of TCAS Action. The only innocent plane really was the DHL. It advised and executed a proper Tcas descent.

  • @sonicfan7 once again, you are wrong. As always happens, ACCIDENTS are a chain of events. This accident was very particular because:

    1st: ATC was on 2 screens (breach of safety from Sky Guide, which was ATC Service provider at Switzerland)

    2nd: as a technician was that day working on some things around phones, or something like that, this technician disconected some systems (I think) from Nielsen's ATC station. This provoked that the system which advises traffic conflict was OUT OF SERVICE.

  • @sonicfan7 that's why another ATC could see the conflict.

    3rd: failure of TU154 crew for not following TCAS. pilots first followed ATC instruction, then TCAS. After this, it was ruled for all the world FIRST TCAS, then ATC

    4rd: failure of 757 crew to report RESOLUTION ADVISORY from TCAS

    Finally, ATC was not to blame.Imagine you are working as a bus driver, and your brakes fail and you run over people. It was not your fault,it was someone else.

  • @sonicfan7 Would you like to be pointed and be told YOU ARE GUILTY?

    I hope I had helped you

    Cheers

  • It only clipped the belly... More like sliced through it.

  • This is so sad..

  • always follow your instruments, unless your an idiot.

  • @HuasoPodrido thats true

  • JUST LOOK AT 9:10 AND IMAGINE HOW MANY THINGS HAD PASSED THROUGH HIM THAT TIME. POOR KIDS AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO WERE ON THIS PLANE. WHAT HAPPENED, HAS HAPPENED.

    BUT, WHY KILL THE CONTROLLER? HE WAS UNDER GREAT PRESSURE. WE DO UNDERSTAND THE KILLER'S PAIN (HE LOST HIS WIFE AND TWO KIDS) BUT WHY KILL THE CONTROLLER. BUT THAT'S NOT THE CASE.

    ANYWAY, REST IN PEACE FOR EVERYONE :( !

  • Man, when he saw they were so close why didn't he stay with them for a little bit instead of going strait back to the other plane, then he would have heard the TCAS decent.

  • nice ending

  • i feel the worst for the controller....:( ATC work harder & under more stressful conditions than they get credit for..this is the worst nightmare they could ever imagine :( & they he got killed for it. sad for all involved

  • @thesecret14 really? he got killed?

  • @DrNeur0tic He got stabbed by Vitaly Kaloyev, who lost his wife and 2 children in the collision.

  • @mylife1221 OMG, but he was innocent! The pilots didn't follow instructions.

  • Humans make misses machines don't

  • After killing the ATC, the russian man got his wife and kids back. I don't get it, what purpose it could have solved by killing the ATC?

  • the dhl pilots had 2 minutes knowing they have no chance and that they are gonna die for sure . so sad!!!

  • After that, a memorial was made for the people whom died in that accident. People blamed the poor controller, but it was actually Skyguide, the company. First of all, the controller had to control two posts for a person, so he wasnt able to pay attention. He also was stripped from pretty much what a controller needs, so he doesnt know if the other plane is desending. He was stripped due to a maitenence, so he cant use the the telephone, the radar, ect. He was later killed, by a man with a knife.

  • Unbelievable mid-air collision!

  • I really don't understand WHY do they put two planes on the same course? WHY?? Why can't you just make the planes ALWAYS fly 1000 feet apart? Why did he put both of them at 36,000 feet any fucking way?

  • @kozeel Both of those flights had pre made flightplans that choose their altitude, controllers job is just keep them in altitude that is in flightplan/pilot wants if possible, and if there is conflict then command other plane to descend.

    That Tupolev flight was also charter flight.

  • @kozeel beacause they were both flying east. One flew HDG 340 the other one 110. It's required to fly them an even Flight level....

  • Every time I watch the part when the Tupolev chops the tail off the Boeing, I get the chills...

  • At the time there was no ruling as to who has priority - TCAS or ATC. Since this incident pilots are now taught that TCAS has priority over ATC so this can not occur again

  • All I'm going to say is thats sad and I think the controller should have let the tcaf tell them what to do but hey shit happens and i have full respects and feel pain for all the famlies

  • its not right to blame 1 person for such terrible disaster \, especcially when he didnt mean that. some bigger authorities have to be blamed.

  • controller's fault is minor. think bout tat: if gave TCAST priority that wudnt happen. 2.if the phones were working and auto crash detect was working.....

    3. if there were 2 controllers... 4.if the pilots... 5. controller.

  • Was the ATC running on macs or something??

  • Russians belived to controller, and then he killed them.

  • @st4tor

    The Russians killed themselves. You have to always listen to TCAS, if the ATC interrupts, you only have to say TCAS ascend/descend and he won't interrupt again.

    It was the Russians fault, not the ATC's

  • @mocsarichard2 fuck you moron, a pilot has to follow the ATC first! That's the primary!

  • @andreirfb

    When the TCAS came in into the planes, that become the priority as the DHL's pilots did it. It's even on Wikipedia, under "TCAS". Of course you can't always make good choises under pressure.

  • @andreirfb NO TCAS is the priority when you have conflicting reports

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  • This happened on my 7th birthday. Dag.

  • Flight Controller, Peter Nielsen was later killed by Vitaly Kaloyev, the father of two girls and wife on the russian flight. After two years in jail he was released because his mental condition was not considered in his sentence. After his release Vitaly was known as a hero in North Ossetia, and is now a deputy construction minister there.

  • The pilots rely on the assistance and help of the controllers although TCAS has to be followed first. If the systems in front of the controller are not trustable due to maintenance work what the hell is is air traffic controll for? Skyguide is crazy to switch off all systems and even all phons without telling anybody. Neither their own nor the foreign controllers had any chance to communicate to each other in an emergency!

  • thats not his fault he was just trying to help other planes too!!!!

  • Also not to often do you see the actual pre crash pictures of a crew that died in a crash as you did at the beginning of this video. In some cases you can see them such as Swiss Air 111's captain or Air Florida Palm 90 but no luck finding Delta 191 or many other crews pre crash photos...

  • Wow the guy who played the pilot looked almost like the real pilot who was being evaluated by the co-pilot for this flight. The rest of the actors really didn't even look close to the real people...

  • There was a maintenance operation on Zurich radar the day when this collision happened. I think the technicians, before doing the operation on the radar, shoud tell the controller that the radar safety line will be disactivated. If the controller had known it from the technicians, maybe he could save the two planes...

  • it's no one's fault, just miscommunication....only 1 controller handling both the planes....

  • I wonder if the pilots saw the other plane comming

  • @Kambanicity probably no time for that......

  • There are better TCAS systems than was shown here. Obviously there are risks here, but geez with all that experience that was a shame. The TCAS was right. The controller wasn't.

  • @vincedog3 the controller could not know that tcas gave the pilots intructions

  • @vincedog3 That why you always listen to the TCAS. Even if the ATC give you instuctions

  • 6:00 "ah fucking traffic, why?" i love the russians. too bad theyre the ones who god cut in half i bet they could have brought that other one down safe. well probably not but still. badass russians

  • gaspeli ,you are stupid (((((

  • gaspeli je retardirani covek bez icega ljudskog u sebi. dabogda njemu poginuli ovako najblizi. saucesce ruskom pilotu, a ovog retardiranog svajcarcsa bi nabio na dozivotnu u zatvor, za namernu smrt nevinih ljudi.

  • @acamijatovic why is it not true???

  • wait so what happened to peter neilson?

  • @Julian24151 he was murdered by the father of one of the girls on the russian flight

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  • you stupid and retards man

  • The controller was killed by a man who lost his 2 kids and wife

  • @batainah28 Fuck I would too!

  • @batainah28: and the murderer was pardoned and received as hero back home. Complete perversion of justice.

  • @batainah28 I thought the controller committed suicide because he couldn't handle the guilt.

  • @batainah28 Is that really true?

  • @batainah28 do you agree with his action? i dont. i do feel sorry for the victims of this collision and for this man but do you agree with his action of killing the controller?>

  • i dont agree with the killing of the controller

  • @batainah28 is it real? or is it a joke?

  • @fryanventu

    it is a real 

  • Even though not Peter Nielsen's guilty, he made the wrong decision to claim 71 lives. He paid his life for their death!

    This case warns the World - you should take responsibility for thing you have done. Some mistake can't occurr or the consequence can't? be reversed!

  • @hongkongsmartboy It's not his fault its the company. he didn't intend to murder them!

  • thats terrible!!!!!!!

  • 8:19 ouch owned

  • Another sad tragedy is, that air controller get stab and die on the scene by one of the family plane victim and he get jailed. Now he is release and was appointed deputy construction minister of North Ossetia

  • not making sence.. who went to jail and who died, and whos working as a construction deputy? please explain..:)

  • One of the air crash family member stab that blue shirt air controller at his work place and die immediately. That one family member get jailed and now he has been released and appointed because people call him a hero.

  • He has been released because he was found to be insane.

  • fuck... IM crying... its really stupid crush...

  • ATC management incompetence and system failures were the main cause of the disaster. It wasnt the atc or any of the pilots...  R.I.P to all of those who lost there lives in that horrible disaster

  • It was partly the fault of the Russian pilots. Standard international procedure was and is to ALWAYS obey an automated alert, be it TCAS/GPWS/windshear/stall rather than obey an ATC command. Of course this would not have mattered had the ATC not directed the aircraft onto a collision course.

  • lol

    Channel Prime!

  • it is the mistake of the pilot!!! he didn't announce ATC about the TCAS. R.I.P.

  • just follow what the computer says... remember that computers are smarter than us humans..

  • Well, in most cases it is but sometimes it isn't.

  • oh... yeah... you're right... i just forgot to put it in here :)

  • Computers can only be as smart as the people that create them...

  • @jeanjones9154

    That`s right.But sadly only one plane followed its` instructions...

  • @jeanjones9154 If the computer had been obeyed (by having one plane descend and one plane climb) that catastrophy would have been averted. when two TCAS equiped airplane get Resolution advisory, their transponder will communicate so that one plane will descend and the other will climb. Computer 1 - 0 Man

  • it was the total mistake of ATC

    i think

  • Yes, but that is only the failure of one system. In most cases multiple systems have to fail for an accident to occur, and that happened here. The last resort TCAS system could have saved both aircraft even once the ATC failed, if the pilots had both followed correct ICAO procedure. Unfortunately one of the crews obeyed the ATC rather than TCAS so the failsafe was also defeated.

  • Obey the TCAS !

  • R.I.P =[ =[ =[ =[

  • 00:13 secs Gold Lottery Results 30-43-42-10-14-4 lol

  • lol thats hilarioous

  • ikr lol those guys were dumbshits, they saw the plane on the colision thingy and they didnt even turn

  • "ah fucking traffic" lool

    tragic disaster RIP

  • THis was a grave travesty. This should have never happened with TCAS II. FAA and EASA really put a stomp on TCAS III programs which would have given vertical and lateral resolution advisories. That would have surely helped here. It is hard to understand why the crews didn't take a lateral course of action.

    Hopefully ADS-B will prived an extra measure.

  • Hope so.

  • Ya gotta feel something for Peter. I feel so bad for him! He never meant for it to happen!!!!

    =(

  • I feel sorry for Peter...Its not his fault :(

  • that sucks the controller made a big mistake. a relative from the flight murdered him 1 month later rip peter

  • 8:22 HOLY

  • Dam Peters collision warning not working.A ATC without collison warnings like a engine without oil.Sooner or later something will f*** up.

  • This is one of my favorite ACI episodes, you can only imagine how the final seconds terrified the crew, both the Bashkirian Air line and the DHL.....the reenactment was realistic.

  • Actually the DHL pilots (as all western pilots) were clearly taught that TCAS was to be followed rather than the ATC, although obviously this had no effect on the accident. The Russian training manual was selfcontradictory. In one paragraph it said that TCAS was an additional instrument to be used alongside ATC, while a seperate part mentioned that TCAS took priority over ATC. I think the Capt. knew this and probably would have reacted correctly if the check capt. had not overruled him.

  • SAD!! :'( love planes

  • yea peter, GO CRY!

  • This really shouldntnt have happened. rip

  • the guy in the atc got murdered !?!?!?! no jokes

  • Nielsen should have made sure he spoke to BOTH planes before leaving his post.

  • if they are telling him different things should a pilot obey air traffic control or his collision avoidance tcas thing?

  • RIP

  • Watched it again. Still can't get over that ATC - he gives someone an urgent traffic warning then goes to do something else? That part surely can't be accurate. At that point he's already in a situation where they are well inside separation and he's going to have to do an incident report.

  • My Dad was an ATC for nearly 40 years, been with him in the tower, and I'm in no doubt that this was 100% the ATC's fault. You should never let planes get into a situation where TCAS is engaged in the first place. I couldn't believe it when I saw the radar readout with the two planes at the same altitude that close, i.e. the FIRST time it shows the radar screen, let alone minutes later. The Russians didn't react as well as they could, but definitely the ATC's fault. Poor, poor guy.

  • You're right that it couldnt have happened if the ATC had been watching the screen properly, but it also couldnt have happened if both pilots obeyed TCAS IMMEDIATELY and regardless of what ATC was ordering them to do. Until recently (certainly 40 years ago)TCAS was not in use and an ATC had to be completely relied upon for preventing collisions if visibility was poor. Now, a pilot should ALWAYS respond to a RA over ATC, be it stall/TCAS/GPWS and they should do so IMMEDIATELY as it sounds.

  • @jonoderidder Apart from he didn't know his computer wasn't working, and didn't warn him about the fact that the two plaines would collide.

    And for anyone who says it was the Russian pilots fault, for not obeying TCAS, yes they should have done and that was only made obvious and clear after the crash. At the time of the accident the use of TCAS and ATC wasn't clear. Look at the near miss collission in Japan in 2001.

  • It was a combination of things, really. But, I believe that the primary responsibility lies with the Russian pilots.

  • I think I'm starting to cry for the kids who didn't survive

  • Not really a proper respons mutulatu23! I'm sure it was not the controllers wish to let the two planes collide. True,he made some big mistakes, but the biggest (fatal) mistake was made by the Russion flight crew. You should know that all pilots are told to follow ATC instructions UNLESS (!!!) the onboard computers (such as the TCAS) provides a different solution. In other words; TCAS must be followed,even if ATC says different. You should really be better informed before making such a statement!

  • That order came AFTER the collision had happened.

  • omg that was horrible, a very tragic mistake.

  • it was a failiure of the skyguide management

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  • Then why THEY were not condemned? If I was a judge I would give 'em a magnificent firing squad!

  • The same rules apply as the GOL fligh 1907, if you start to prosecute people, they will hide their mistakes to cover their own ass instead of telling the truth.

  • Murder requires intent and malice aforethought. Neilsen had no intent to cause the deaths of all those people, let alone did he plan it in advance.

  • 6:01 f%@&ing traffic!!!!

  • Holy Shit.

  • fuck, haven't got the lotto results :P

  • Oh my god. I myself am a pilot so this is... I dont even have the words.

  • i don't think the ATC controller deserves to die, regardless of how tragic his mistake was. It was unintentional.

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  • jesus thats scary...

  • Fact: On 24 February 2004, the controller who was on duty at the time, Dane Peter Nielsen, was stabbed to death by Vitaly Kaloyev, who had lost his wife and two children in the accident

  • why do they have 5 people in the cockpit???

  • actually they need 4, 5. man is not on duty :)

  • oh, thanks ^_^

  • They just need more controllers!!!

    what would you do when some1 advises u 2 descend whil ehte plain is telling 2 climb, maybe the they though the controller knew that the other plain was climbing, but no, he wasn't paying attention!

  • OMGdness!! splitting it in two!! imagine the people that were thrown into the air... thats messesd up.

  • i kno this is kinda messed up but lol @ 00:13

  • haha

  • Scary.

  • Shouldn't the TCAS have the priority in case of very close traffic?

  • at 06:02 what does he say

  • I think he says "no fucking traffic". Maybe he thinks that the ATC would have warned them already if there was actually a traffic getting too close from them. Unfortunately the ATC doesn't look very aware of what is going on in the sky...

  • this is so sad

  • he is already dead.

  • He was actually not to blame for this accident. This crash was a result of a chain of events and there was many other people involved. Watch the whole