Lufthansa Cityline CRJ9 and Niki A320 near Budapest on Jun 11th 2012, loss of separation

Last Update: August 24, 2012 / 12:38:35 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 11, 2012

Classification
Incident

Airline
Lufthansa Cityline

Flight number
LH-9949

Departure
Timisoara, Romania

Destination
Munich, Germany

Aircraft Registration
D-ACKC

Aircraft Type
Canadair CL-600 Regional Jet CRJ-705

ICAO Type Designator
CRJ9

A Lufthansa Cityline Canadair CRJ-900, registration D-ACKC performing flight LH-9949 from Timisoara (Romania) to Munich (Germany), had been cleared to climb to FL330 by Eastern Budapest area control center, the crew read the clearance correctly back and was handed off to the Western Budapest area control center about 56nm south of Budapest. When the crew checked in with western area control center they reported they were climbing through FL335 for FL360.

A Niki Airbus A320-200, registration OE-LEU performing flight HG-2803 from Thira (Greece) to Vienna (Austria), was enroute at FL340 about 56nm south of Budapest.

The Hungarian Transportation Safety Board (KBSZ) reported a dangerous proximity occurred when the separation between the two aircraft reduced to 0 feet vertical and 1.2nm horizontally. The lateral proximity reduced further to 0.7nm until the required minimum vertical separation of 1000 feet was re-established.

Both aircraft continued to their destinations for safe landings, no injuries and no damage occurred.

The KBSZ rated the occurrence an accident and initiated an investigation.

On Aug 24th 2012 the BFU reported in their monthly bulletin at the point of closest distance the aircraft were separated by 500 feet vertical and 1.2nm horizontal.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 11, 2012

Classification
Incident

Airline
Lufthansa Cityline

Flight number
LH-9949

Departure
Timisoara, Romania

Destination
Munich, Germany

Aircraft Registration
D-ACKC

Aircraft Type
Canadair CL-600 Regional Jet CRJ-705

ICAO Type Designator
CRJ9

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