such disaster in the United States. In that accident, an All-Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese air force FB6 collided over Morioka, Japan on July 30,1971. A mid air collision is an aviation accident in which two or more aircraft come into contact during flight. The 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision occurred on 10 September 1976 over the town of Vrbovec near Zagreb in Yugoslavia (now Croatia) at 11:15am local time (10:15 UTC). Improper Co-ordination between ATC Units: Zagreb Mid-air Collision (1976) In mid-70s, Zagreb ATC Centre was one of the busiest area control centre in Europe as Zagreb was a common reporting point for traffic flying between northern Europe and … Computer generated image of United Airlines Flight 718 and TWA Flight 2 colliding. When I retired in 2016, we were working 6 days per week, mostly 10 hour days, with a schedule often referred to as the "rattler". Mid-air crashes are extremely rare. 1. There exist systemic problems and I hope to never hear of a mid air collision, but I am pessimistic. This is a very busy US TRACON. In 1976, Zagreb Air Traffic Control was one of the busiest centres in Europe. Yet mid-air safety has improved since then. Two jets collided in mid-air over Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176 people, on this day in 1976. The last one was in 1976 when a British Airways Trident collided with a DC9 over Zagreb in Croatia, killing 176 people. A United Air Lines DCS and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City on Dec. 16, 1960 the worst. The Zagreb VOR beacon formed a junction for heavily used airways used by en-route air traffic to and from South Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and beyond. wikipedia-en:1976_Zagreb_mid-air_collision This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision computer graphics.png 800 × 600; 465 KB Botsende vliegtuigen - Colliding planes (3350708935).jpg 355 × 443; 17 KB Botsing in de lucht, Beech Bonanza A36, Beech Bonanza A36, 8 juni 2000.pdf 1,239 × 1,754, 115 pages; 1.33 MB

Owing to the relatively high velocities involved and any The previous highest death toll from an air collision was 162. Errors by an air-traffic controller led to this deadly collision.

(1) This is an account of one of the worlds worst mid-air collisions.