EDIS Number: VIV-20140720-44605-RUS
Date / time: 20/07/2014 17:38:59 [UTC]
Event: Vehicle Incident
Area: Europe
Country: Russia [Asia]
State/County: Rostovskaya Oblast
Location: [Rostov airspace]
Number of Deads: N/A
Number of Injured: N/A
Number of Infected: N/A
Number of Missing: N/A
Number of Affected: N/A
Number of Evacuated: N/A
Damage level: N/A
Description:
Air traffic controllers barely managed to stop six airliners from colliding on Sunday in Russia's southern Rostov region, near the Ukrainian border, Interfax reported. The passenger planes were all traveling at a height of 10,000 meters over the same area at about the same time, but air traffic controllers were able to divert all the flights at the last moment. The problem apparently occurred due to flight paths having been diverted following an airliner's deadly crash in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.
