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Monday, 1 July, 2002, 23:39 GMT 00:39 UK

germany crash

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	The BBC's Rob Broomby reports "Police here in Germany are saying the Boeing was a cargo plane"

	Duty manager at Frankfurt airport "The Tupolev was heading to Barcelona from Moscow"

	The BBC's Rob Broomby reports "The planes collided near Lake Constance and many people are feared dead"

	Heike Zeitzer from the police in Stuttgart "We have found bodies on the ground and there is burning debris over a large area"

	The BBC's Rob Broomby "People have described a dark orange lightening flash"

	DHL spokesman Axel Geitz: "In our 33 year history we have never had anything like this at all"

	The BBC's Rob Broomby reports "We are hearing that one of the black-box flight recorders may have been found"

	The BBC's Rob Broomby "One report speaks of bodies strewn across the road"

	The BBC's Jane Warr reports "Rescue workers have been sifting through the wreckage"

	The BBC's Rob Broomby "The aircraft were at the same altitude"

	Head of corporate affairs at DHL, Axel Gietz "Our condolences go out to everybody affected by this terrible tragedy"

	The BBC's Jane Warr "Burning debris was scattered over a 25 mile radius"

	The BBC's Caroline Wyatt reports "At least fifty of the passengers on board the Bashkir Airlines flight were children or teenagers"

	The BBC's Caroline Wyatt "It sounds very much like a school party"

	The BBC's Jonathan Charles "There are also questions about whether there was a technical equipment failure"

	Eyewitness, Alfred Knoedler "There are many dead bodies around"

	The BBC's Jane Warr "Eyewitnesses reported seeing a huge ball of fire"

	The BBC's Caroline Wyatt "They had missed their original connecting flight"

	Aviation expert Chris Yates "Swiss air traffic control has a very good safety record"

	The BBC's Michael Voss "None of the passengers and crew on the two flights survived"

	Flight International magazine's Max Kingsley-Jones "The Tupolev is basically a 1960s technology aircraft"

	The BBC's Nikolai Gorshkov "The relatives will be taken direct to Germany via another charter flight"

	The BBC's Jonathan Charles "The wreckage fell to earth at a rate of hundreds of miles an hour"

	The BBC's Caroline Wyatt "The children's mothers and fathers are in a state of shock"

	The BBC's Simon Montague "Crash investigators are beginning their work"

	Anton Mark, Zurich Air Traffic Control "The Russian pilot reacted very late"

	The BBC's James Robbins "In Germany, the detailed crash investigation is well underway"

	The BBC's Robert Hall "Investigators are beginning to piece together what led to a collision that should have been avoidable"

	The BBC's Gavin hewitt "The Russians blame the air traffic controller for giving so little warning"

	The BBC's Simon Montague "The Swiss are admitting that their controller gave less than one minute warning"

	The BBC's Caroline Wyatt "Grief beyond words for the families of the dead"

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