(Denyav) schrieb:

BTW A couple of years ago in very same area an USAF transport plane collided
with a German transport plane.This event was strange enough I guess.

What was strange with this midair collision?

The german Luftwaffe plane was a Tu154M (taken from the GDR), the US
plane a C141 Starlifter. The german crew was on tour to South Africa -
the pax consisted of Bundeswehr officers and their spouses who wanted
to take place in a sailing race in Kapstadt on the 75th anniversary of
the south african navy. The C141 brought anti-land mine equipment to
Namibia.

The german crew prepared a flight plan for the route, but the algerian
pilots didn´t pass it along to their counterparts in Windhuk(according
to Der Spiegel, 22.09.1997).

Both planes lacked a TCAS, one crew chose the wrong height. The
Luftwaffe crew set a usual international radio frequency, while (as
Der Spiegel claims) the Air Force crew used a "private" one.

According to US Air Mobility Command, the Starlifter wasn´t even
equipped with a transponder.

Gruss, Roman