Трагедия над Боденским озером — это история о двух катастрофах. Первая унесла 71 жизнь, вторая — разрушила жизнь ещё одного человека, который не смог справиться с горем. Первая катастрофа: 71 погибший В ночь на 1 июля 2002 года в небе над южной Германией столкнулись пассажирский Ту-154 авиакомпании «Башкирские авиалинии» и грузовой Boeing 757 компании DHL. На борту российского самолёта находились 52 ребёнка из Башкортостана, летевшие на отдых в Испанию, а также acompanniating them adults. All 69 people on board the Tu-154 and 2 pilots of the Boeing died. The cause of the accident was a tragic chain of errors and circumstances. That night, one air traffic controller, Peter Nielsen, a 36-year-old Dane, was on duty at the Skyguide air traffic control center in Zurich. His colleague had gone on break, and the main conflict warning system had been turned off for scheduled maintenance. When the controller noticed that the planes were dangerously close, he ordered the Russian pilot to descend. However, at the same time, the on-board TCAS system on the Tu-154 required an altitude increase. The pilots obeyed the controller's instructions instead of the automation. It took only 44 seconds from the moment Nielsen realized the danger until the collision. Вторая катастрофа: месть Виталия Калоева Among the victims were his wife and two children of Vitaly Kaloev, a Russian architect from the North Ossetia. The loss of his entire family became an unbearable trauma for him. He did not believe in coincidence and looked for culprits. In February 2004, Kaloev came to Switzerland and went to Nielsen's home. According to his own words, he wanted to hear apologies or explanations. But the conversation quickly turned into a fight, and Kaloev stabbed Nielsen several times. The dispatcher died on the spot, in front of his wife. In October 2005, the Zurich court found Vitaly Kaloev guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced him to 8 years in prison. The sentence was later shortened, ... Читать далее