diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index cd49efcf9c07..41f5bedd27b8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 devel
 -----
 
+* Fixed BTS-562: reduce-extraction-to-projection optimization returns null for 
+  one attribute if nested attributes are named the same.
+
 * Add `--datatype` startup option to arangoimport, in order to hard-code the
   datatype (null/boolean/number/string) for certain attributes in the CSV/TSV import.
   For example, given the following input file:
diff --git a/arangod/Aql/AttributeNamePath.cpp b/arangod/Aql/AttributeNamePath.cpp
index c878304cd0ef..0a733bd48e70 100644
--- a/arangod/Aql/AttributeNamePath.cpp
+++ b/arangod/Aql/AttributeNamePath.cpp
@@ -133,9 +133,10 @@ AttributeNamePath& AttributeNamePath::shortenTo(size_t length) {
   size_t numEqual = 0;
   size_t commonLength = std::min(lhs.size(), rhs.size());
   for (size_t i = 0; i < commonLength; ++i) {
-    if (lhs[i] == rhs[i]) {
-      ++numEqual;
+    if (lhs[i] != rhs[i]) {
+      break;
     }
+    ++numEqual;
   }
   return numEqual;
 }
diff --git a/tests/js/server/aql/aql-optimizer-rule-reduce-extraction-to-projection.js b/tests/js/server/aql/aql-optimizer-rule-reduce-extraction-to-projection.js
index 841b94447d1d..12236626f76f 100644
--- a/tests/js/server/aql/aql-optimizer-rule-reduce-extraction-to-projection.js
+++ b/tests/js/server/aql/aql-optimizer-rule-reduce-extraction-to-projection.js
@@ -274,8 +274,49 @@ function optimizerRuleTestSuite () {
 
         assertEqual(2, found);
       });
-    }
-    
+    },
+
+    testBts562 : function () {
+      c.truncate();
+      c.insert({ foo: { attr: 1 }, bar: { attr: 2 } });
+
+      let result = AQL_EXECUTE(`FOR doc IN @@cn RETURN [ doc.foo.attr, doc.bar.attr ]`, { "@cn" : cn }).json; 
+      assertEqual(1, result.length);
+      assertEqual([ 1, 2 ], result[0]);
+
+      c.truncate();
+      c.insert({ foo: { attr: 1 }, bar: { attr: 2 }, baz: { attr: 3 } });
+      
+      result = AQL_EXECUTE(`FOR doc IN @@cn RETURN [ doc.foo.attr, doc.bar.attr, doc.baz.attr ]`, { "@cn" : cn }).json; 
+      assertEqual(1, result.length);
+      assertEqual([ 1, 2, 3 ], result[0]);
+
+      c.truncate();
+      c.insert({ result: {} });
+      c.insert({ result: { status: "ok" } });
+
+      result = AQL_EXECUTE(`FOR d IN @@cn COLLECT resultStatus = d.result.status, requestStatus = d.request.status WITH COUNT INTO count SORT resultStatus RETURN { resultStatus, requestStatus, count }`, { "@cn": cn }).json;
+
+      assertEqual(2, result.length);
+      assertEqual({ resultStatus: null, requestStatus: null, count: 1 }, result[0]);
+      assertEqual({ resultStatus: "ok", requestStatus: null, count: 1 }, result[1]);
+
+      result = AQL_EXECUTE(`FOR d IN @@cn COLLECT resultStatus = d.result.status, requestOther = d.request.other WITH COUNT INTO count SORT resultStatus RETURN { resultStatus, requestOther, count }`, { "@cn" : cn }).json;
+      assertEqual(2, result.length);
+      assertEqual({ resultStatus: null, requestOther: null, count: 1 }, result[0]);
+      assertEqual({ resultStatus: "ok", requestOther: null, count: 1 }, result[1]);
+
+      c.truncate();
+      c.insert({ result: { status: "ok" }, request: { status: "ok" } });
+      c.insert({ result: { status: "ok" }, request: { status: "blarg" } });
+
+      result = AQL_EXECUTE(`FOR d IN @@cn COLLECT resultStatus = d.result.status, requestStatus = d.request.status WITH COUNT INTO count SORT requestStatus RETURN { resultStatus, requestStatus, count }`, { "@cn" : cn }).json;
+
+      assertEqual(2, result.length);
+      assertEqual({ resultStatus: "ok", requestStatus: "blarg", count: 1 }, result[0]);
+      assertEqual({ resultStatus: "ok", requestStatus: "ok", count: 1 }, result[1]);
+    },
+
   };
 }