![]() The two planes collided, killing 71 people. The pilots instinct was also fateful, but tragically so. Bono was charged with first-degree murder. ![]() Police traced the car to Bonos mother, then went to her apartment, where they found her battered body in the bathtub. The Russian pilot overrode the software, and the plane began to angle downward. Nearly simultaneously, a Swiss air traffic controller-whose computerized air traffic system was down-offered an instant human judgment: descend. On July 1, 2002, a Russian Bashkirian Airlines jets collision-avoidance system instructed its pilot to ascend when a DHL cargo jet approached in the Swiss-controlled airspace over southern Germany. "I can tell by your manners that you have a nice mother." Bono replied: "I dont know where my mother is." After Bono left, she called the police and suggested they trace his license plates. "I am a mother, and I have to talk to you like a mother," she said. ![]() As Larsen talked with him, she came to feel that something was very wrong. ![]() His car had broken down, and he needed a ride to meet friends in Thunder Bay. ![]() On an April morning in 2001 Christopher Bono, a clean-cut, well-mannered 16-year-old, approached Jackie Larsen in Grand Marais, Minn. ![]()
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