This is the story of Edeklweiss air WK3 on the 25th of august 2016 an airbus a330 was making the flight from los angeles to Zurich with 204people on board. You know the deal this was one of those long haul flights like the hundred of ones that take place every day. They took off from los angeles and now after a couple of hours they were getting ready to land in zurich. I imagine that the pilots the crew and everyone on board were getting ready to land. We all know the drill, after a couple of hours in the air we all want to get on the ground and stretch our legs. So as the controllers lined flight ___ up with the runway something else was happening in germany. Now full disclosure, I am not european not by a long shot, and this next section will have a lot of european names in it and im gonna be honest with you despite my best efforts I might mess this up. But if i do please feel free to yell at me in the comments of this video. Okay back to the video. On the ground at traben-trarbach a guy with a motor glider with the tail number D-KOWC was preparing to take a passenger to Biberach. The plan was to take off from Traben-trarvbach fly to Bad Durkheim pick up the passenger and then fly Bieberach. The glider was pretty barebones when it came to navigation, he had a compass a deviation table and an ipad with the app VFR-Nav with charts for the flight. With all the testing done the motor glider took off from bad durkheim at 10:25 UTC with the passenger, they needed to make a refuelling stop in Constance before heading off to Biberach. The two people made their way across europe in this tiny plane and when they were in the felberg region the radio cut out on the motor glider. The pilot quickly checked the fuses and found out that a fuse had tripped killing the radio. Now he did some switch flipping and he was able to trade the transponder for the radio and obviously flying without a transponder is dangerous so he decided to divert to bremgarten. For those od you that dont know the transponder is the piece of equipment that tells air traffic control everything that they need to know about your plane, things like who you are what speed youre at, your altitude all the important bits, flying without a transponder is kind of like swimming in a pool without a lifeguard. The mechanics on the ground at bremgarten looked over the plane and said that the onboard battery was running low on juice and so they charged the battery for about 90 minutes. With the battery juiced up they took off again at 2:55 Pm UTC. while they were overflying the todtmoos region 13 kilometers southwest of Lake Suchluchsee the pilot tried to raise zurich information pn 124.7 and right on cue the fuse tripped again. He tried to get all of his systems back online but nothing worked and then like last time he switched off the transponder to reduce the power consumption so that he could get his radio back up and running. But now he had a problem, his ipad had also died and with that, the VFR nav navigation app was gone, he now had to rely on an ICAO chart to navigate. As all of this was happening the Edelweiss A330 was now being vectored in for a landing on runway 14 by Zurich approach. The controller cleared the jet onto a heading of 110 degrees with permission to descend all the way down to 4000 feet. As this clearance was given the controller noticed a faint shadow on the radar screen that was intermittent. Usually, on a radar screen you have information about a plane, like its type whos flying it speed altitude that sort of thing, this radar return had none of that. The controller obviously concerned radioed and by the way this is from a translated report so this might not be verbatim "Edelweiss Three Alfa, and there is one primary target at DME2 13, just now on the localizer and seems to follow approximately localizer inbound, altitude is unknown." the small glider that we were talking about had somehow strayed into the approach vector of a major international airport. This was highly restricted airspace and this small plane was smack in the middle of it. Later the controller had a better idea of where the