Accidents
Swiss Report on 2012 Falcon-Hawker Near-Miss
The investigative body assigned blame to the fighter pilot.

In a final investigative report of a June 2012 daylight near-miss between a European Falcon 2000 and a civil-registered Hawker Hunter fighter published last week, the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board allocated blame to the fighter pilot as well as some local Swiss air traffic controllers. On June 12, 2012, a Falcon 2000 on an IFR flight plan departed Buochs aerodrome southeast of Lucerne following a standard instrument departure climbing to FL100. The Falcon’s departure was guided by the Zurich area control center. The Hawker departed nearby Emmen military base in VFR conditions headed southeast toward the Falcon’s departure path. Neither pilot was informed about the other’s presence by ATC.