Accidents and Incidents
- Überlingen mid-air collision
- On July 7, 2002, the Boeing 757 of DHL Aviation had a mid-air collision with the Tupolev Tu-154 of Bashkirian Airlines due to the Tupolev following controller orders rather than their T.C.A.S. system, all 69 passengers in Tupolev Tu-154, plus the 2 pilots from Boeing 757 were killed.
- On June 6, 2011, a Solenta Aviation Antonov An-26 freighter flying for DHL Aviation crashed in the sea near Libreville, Gabon. Four people on board were rescued and transported to a local hospital, but were not seriously injured.
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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