DHL Aviation - Accidents and Incidents

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.

Read more about this topic:  DHL Aviation

Famous quotes containing the words accidents and/or incidents:

    The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
    Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)