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On 10 September 1976, British Airways Flight 476, a Hawker Siddeley Trident en route from London to Istanbul, collided mid-air near Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), with Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550, a Douglas DC-9 en route from Split, Yugoslavia, to Cologne, West Germany. The collision was the result of a procedural error on the part of Zagreb air traffic controllers. All 176 people aboard both flights were killed,〔AAIB, Aircraft Accident Report 9/82, p. 8〕〔AAIB, Aircraft Accident Report 5/77, pp. 5-6〕 making it, at the time, the world's deadliest mid-air collision. It was, and remains, the only fatal accident to befall an aircraft operated by British Airways〔A passenger from British Airways Flight 149 who was being held hostage by Iraqi forces in 1990 was later killed by the Iraqis.〕 (not counting BA's predecessors), as well as the deadliest aviation accident in Croatia. == Flights == British Airways Flight 476 departed London Heathrow Airport for Istanbul Atatürk Airport at 08:32 UTC as flight BA476, with 54 passengers on board and a crew of 9.〔AAIB, Aircraft Accident Report 5/77, p. 1〕 At the controls of the Trident 3B was an experienced captain, Dennis Tann (born 1932), who by the time of the accident had accumulated 10,781 flying hours. He was assisted by first officer Brian Helm and acting first officer Martin Flint.〔AAIB, Aircraft Accident Report 5/77, pp. 6–8〕 Inex-Adria Flight 550 departed Split Airport at 09:48 UTC bound for Cologne Bonn Airport as flight JP550. It carried 108 passengers, mostly German holiday-makers returning home at the end of a holiday on the Dalmatian coast, and a crew of 5.〔AAIB, Aircraft Accident Report 5/77, p. 2〕 At the controls sat captain Jože Krumpak (born 1925), an experienced pilot with 10,157 flying hours, and first officer Dušan Ivanuš.〔〔AAIB, Aircraft Accident Report 5/77, pp. 10–11〕 Inex-Adria was a charter airline based in Slovenia, the northernmost of the constituent republics making up the federation of Yugoslavia. Both flights proceeded uneventfully until they approached the Zagreb VOR. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1976 Zagreb mid-air collision」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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