This is a very busy US TRACON. Mid-air crashes are extremely rare.

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). Owing to the relatively high velocities involved and any

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such disaster in the United States.

1. (1) This is an account of one of the worlds worst mid-air collisions. 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". There exist systemic problems and I hope to never hear of a mid air collision, but I am pessimistic. The last one was in 1976 when a British Airways Trident collided with a DC9 over Zagreb in Croatia, killing 176 people. 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. The previous highest death toll from an air collision was 162. 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 In that accident, an All-Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese air force FB6 collided over Morioka, Japan on July 30,1971. Errors by an air-traffic controller led to this deadly collision. In 1976, Zagreb Air Traffic Control was one of the busiest centres in Europe. Computer generated image of United Airlines Flight 718 and TWA Flight 2 colliding. Yet mid-air safety has improved since then. 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 … A mid air collision is an aviation accident in which two or more aircraft come into contact during flight.

A United Air Lines DCS and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City on Dec. 16, 1960 the worst.

Two jets collided in mid-air over Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176 people, on this day in 1976.