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| Date: | Thursday 16 May 1996 |
| Time: | 07:11 LT |
| Type: |  Saab 340B |
| Owner/operator: | Crossair |
| Registration: | HB-AKL |
| MSN: | 340B-215 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1990 |
| Engine model: | GE CT7 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | 12 km north of Sigmaringen -
 Switzerland
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Nürnberg - EDDN |
| Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH) | |
| Investigating agency: | BFU Switz. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Crossair flight 571 from Nürnberg to Zürich, nearly collided mid-air with CSA flight 584, a Tupolev Tu-154 (OK-UCF,) en route from Prague to Zürich.
CAUSE:
The incident occurred because the air traffic controller cleared an aircraft to descend to a flight level that had not yet been vacated by an intersecting aircraft that was also descending.
Contributing to the incident were:
- Overlap of labels on the radar screen;
- excessively high descent rate of the CSA aircraft;
- low descent rate of the Crossair aircraft.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
BFU Switzerland
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 9 December 1993 | HB-AKC | Crossair | 0 | Berne-Belp Airport (BRN) | |
min |
| Runway excursion | ||||||
| 21 January 2016 | SE-LJS* | NextJet | 0 | near Lycksele (LYC) |  |
min |
| Engine failure | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Sep-2010 02:51 | Alpine Flight | Added |
| 17-May-2021 07:33 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, ] |
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