Accident Ends in Murder / The Überlingen Mid-air Collision
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Flight Six One One
There wer 60 passengers on this plane and four flight attendants on board. Most of the passengers were children who were on a school trip, flying from russia to the northeast coast of spain. The two pilots had flown this route several times together during the previous month. At one 30 p m, u t c, they departed barain and landed at bergamo almost six hours later than planned. They requested 36 thousand feet, which was the altitude selected on their flight plan. Why planes fly so high? Oh, actually, i didn't know that. I don't think that that's why they it's more efficient up there. It's like less dense, yet there's
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