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direwolf20yesterday at 5:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

When an overworked air traffic controller in Germany gave a plane an instruction that happened to be the opposite of TCAS automatic collision avoidance system, and one pilot followed TCAS to avoid a collision and one followed the controller, the planes crashed and everybody died. A family member of one of the passengers looked up, hunted down, and murdered in cold blood the air traffic controller.


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krisoftyesterday at 6:08 PM

> an overworked air traffic controller in Germany

Actually the air traffic controller in question was Swiss not German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_c...

fc417fc802yesterday at 7:22 PM

You left out - was a foreigner, managed to escape, faced zero consequences at home (AFAIK).

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