Today the Luftwaffe closed down highway A9 to bring a damaged Eurofighter to the factory in Manching. Apart from the remaining Eurofighters that are out of service due to numerous technical problems, this one had a mid-air collision with a Learjet that it was chasing for training purposes. The Learjet crashed and both pilots died. The picture is quite representative of the state of the German armed forces…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Olsberg_mid-air_collision
At the time of the accident, which was the first mid-air collision in German airspace in ten years,9 the Learjet was simulating a civil airliner that had lost radio contact with Air Traffic Control. The Eurofighter Typhoons were simulating a military response to such a scenario.3[BFU 5]
Tragic accident but it’s good they practice so the Learjet was not a 737
