1976 Zagreb mid-air collision
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1976-zagreb-mid-air-collision-206-16731667
title:
1976 Zagreb mid-air collision
text:
The 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision took place on 10 September 1976, when British Airways Flight 476, a Hawker Siddeley Trident en route from London to Istanbul, collided mid-air with Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 en route from Split, SFR Yugoslavia, to Cologne, West Germany, near Zagreb in modern-day Croatia. The collision was the result of a procedural error on the part of air traffic controllers in Zagreb. All 176 people aboard the two aircraft were killed, making i
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description:
Fatal collision of passenger flights over Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Zagreb_mid-air_collision
date created:
2006-01-07T18:21:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T21:52:09Z
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