CREDITS

NARRATION:

Episode narrated by the Anonymous Host

EPISODE:

Episode researched and written by Milly Raso

MUSIC:

‘Flatline intro’ and ‘Come play with me’ intro and outro www.dl-sounds.com

All other music and audio clean up performed by Mike Migas and Andrew Joslyn

OTHER:

Logo design by Paulina Szymanska

RESOURCES

BOOKS:

Collision – Ksenia Kaspari

The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses – Paul Simpson

REPORTS:

Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 & DHL Flight 611 Investigation Report – German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents

The Uberlingen Mid-Air Collision: Lessons for the Management of Control Rooms in the Process Industries

TRANSCRIPT:

Transcript of Original Tape Recording – Accident DHX611/BTC2937

ARTICLES:

71 die when two jets collide high above southern Germany – The New York Times

Planes crashed in ‘ball of flames’ – CNN

Midair jet collision kills 71 – Los Angeles Times

Lake Constance plane crash kills 71, mostly children – Deutsche Welle

Germany mid-air crash kills 70: 52 children among victims – Dawn

52 kids among dead in midair collision – ABC News

Russians defend crew in air crash – The Baltimore Sun

Unfinished Flight 2937 – Trud

Losing control of the skies – The Guardian

Families arrive to confront the loss of their children – The Guardian

Russia mourns prizewinning pupils doomed by a twist of fate – The Guardian

Russian city grieves as teen burials begin – Chicago Tribune

Grieving Ufa buries 28 crash victims – The Moscow Times

Russian town remembers students lost in crash – Arizona Daily Sun

Russia mourns mid-air victims – CNN

Putin mourns air crash victims – CNN

Boeing flown by ‘top drawer’ British pilot – Independent

Heartbreak of British pilot’s family – The Telegraph

‘He loved flying,’ pilot’s sister says – The Globe and Mail

Mid-air collision inquiry begins – CNN

Plane crash remembered; one mourner not welcome – The New York Times

Plane crash memorial unveiled – Expatica

Memorial unveiled for air crash victims – SwissInfo

Air traffic man stabbed to death after jet crash – The Telegraph

Murdered airman loved ice hockey – B.T

Man whose family died in air crash is arrested for murder of controller – The Telegraph

Plane crash killing trial starts – BBC

Verdict expected in air-traffic-controller killing trial – Breaking News

Swiss convict 4 air controllers over 2002 jet crash – Reuters

Air traffic managers convicted over 2002 collision – The Irish Times

Revenge, but no sweet life for killer – Chicago Tribune

‘I am at odds with God’: Avenger for kids and wife never regretted murder – RT360

Nothing left to lose: grief-crazed murder suspect haunted by family’s air deaths – The Guardian

The heartbreaking multiple tragedies behind true-life plane crash that drove a dad to murder – Mirror

The last catastrophe – Spiegel Online

One Russian’s tale of loss and vengeance – The Irish Times

Dad’s spiral into murder – The Sun

Vitaly Kaloyev awarded with the medal ‘To the Glory of Ossetia’ – Komlomolskaya Pravda

VIDEOS:

Air Crash Investigations: Deadly Crossroads

Seconds From Disaster: Death in Mid-Air

OTHER RESOURCES:

Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 & DHL Flight 611: mid-air collision analysis – Aviation Knowledge

Accident description: Tupolev 154M Aircraft – Aviation Safety Network

Accident description: Boeing 757 Aircraft – Aviation Safety Network

The German Midair: Lessons to be Learned – International Aviation Safety Association

Biographies of the Casualties of Uberlingen Disaster

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