Mid-air_collision

Boeing 727 PSA Flight 182, in flames and out of control after colliding with another aircraft in 1978

A mid-air collision (MAC) is an aviation accident where two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight. Due to the high velocities involved in modern aviation, this usually results in very severe damage or total destruction of one or more aircraft involved.

There are many types and causes of mid-air collisions. On some occasions military aircraft conducting training flights inadvertently collide with civilian aircraft. In 2005, as part of an effort to reduce such military/civilian mid-airs in U.S. airspace, the Air National Guard Flight Safety Division created the See And Avoid web portal at http://www.SeeAndAvoid.org. In late 2006, the U.S. Defense Safety Oversight Council (DSOC) recognized and funded the See And Avoid site as its official civil/military midair collision prevention website, with participation by all the services.

Contents 1 List of notable civilian mid-air collisions 2 List of notable military mid-air collisions 3 See also 4 External links

List of notable civilian mid-air collisions

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Date (Toll) - Aircraft - Collision Site

• 1938 Aug 24 (45) - Japanese Flying School (Hanriot HD-1) and Japan Airlines Transportation (Universal) - Over Omori, Tokyo
• 1945 Jul 12 (3) - Eastern Airlines and US Army (B-25) - Over Syracuse, SC
• 1949 Nov 1 (55) - Eastern Airlines 537 (DC4) and Bolivian Gov\'t (Lockheed P-38) - Over Washington, D.C.
• 1951 Apr 25 (43) - Cubana de Aviacion 493 (DC4) and US Navy (Beechcraft) - Over Key West, Florida
• 1955 Jan 12 (15) - TWA (Martin 202) and Private (DC3) - Near Greater Cincinnati Airport (CVG), in Boone County, Kentucky.
• 1956 Jun 30 (128) - UA718 (DC7) and TWA2 (Lockheed L-1049) - Over the Grand Canyon, Arizona
• 1960 Dec 16 (134) - UA826 (DC8) and TWA266 (Lockheed L-1049) - Over New York City
• 1963 Feb 1 (87) - Middle East Airlines 265 (Vickers Viscount) and Turkish Air Force (C-47 CBK28) - Over Ankara, Turkey
• 1967 Mar 9 (26) - TWA553 (DC9) and Private (Beechcraft) - Over Urbana, Ohio
• 1967 Jul 19 (82) - Piedmont Airlines 22 (Boeing 727) and Lanseair Inc. (Cessna 310) - Near Hendersonville, North Carolina
• 1969 Sep 9 (82) - Allegheny Airlines 853 (DC9) and Private (Piper Cheerokee) - Near Fairland, Indiana
• 1971 Jul 30 (162) - ANA58 (Boeing 727) and JASDF (F86 fighter) - Near Shizukuishi, Japan
• 1976 Jun 6 (50) - Hughes Airwest 706 (DC9) and US Marines (F-4B Phantom) - Over San Gabriel Mountains, California
• 1976 Sep 10 (176) - BA476 (Trident 3B) and Inex-Adria 550 (DC9) near Zagreb, Croatia
• 1978 Sep 25 (144) - PSA182 (Boeing727) and Private (Cessna 172) - Over San Diego, California
• 1979 Aug 11 (178) - Aeroflot (Tupolev Tu-134) and Aeroflot (Tupolev Tu-134) - Near Dniprodzerzhynsk, USSR (now Ukraine)
• 1986 Aug 31 (82) - Aeroméxico 498 (DC9) and Private (Piper Cheerokee) - Over Cerritos, California
• 1996 Nov 12 (349) - Saudia 763 (Boeing 747) and Kazakhstan Airlines 1907 (Ilyushin Il-76) - Over Charkhi Dadri, India
• 2002 Jul 1 (71) - Bashkirian Airlines 2937 (Tupolev 154) and DHL611 (Boeing 757) - Over Überlingen, Germany
• 2006 Sep 29 (154) - Gol Transportes Aéreos 1907 (Boeing 737) and ExcelAire (Embraer Legacy 600) - Over the Amazon in Brazil
• 2007 Jul 27 (4) - Two news helicopters from TV stations KNXV-TV and KTVK collide - Over Phoenix, Arizona
• 2008 Jan 20 (4) - Two Cessnas, near the small Corona Municipal airport and a freeway in Riverside County, Los Angeles, California [1]

List of notable military mid-air collisions

• 1966 Jun 8 (2) - The last test flight of the prototype XB-70 Valkyrie with an F-104 [2]
• 1985 Jul 5 (1) - US Navy Blue Angels Air demonstration team aircraft 6 & 7, A-4F Skyhawk collide over airshow in Niagara Falls, NY during opposing knife edged solo maneuver killing pilot of Blue Angel6
• 1988 Aug 28 (75) - Two Aermacchi MB-339 collided during an airshow above Ramstein Air Base and fell onto the audience.
• 1997 Sep 13 (33) - Luftwaffe TU-154 collides with USAF C141 over Namibia, Africa

See also

• ADS-B
• Near miss
• List of accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft
• Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)

External links

• Indepth Backgrounder: Mid-air collision, CBC
• SeeAndAvoid, DoD Civil-Military Midair Collision Prevention Portal

Lists of aviation accidents and incidents
General	by year · by death toll · in mid-air
Commercial	by year · by airline · by location · by cause / in alphabetical order
Military	by year · Shootdowns · Iraq War · Coalition aircraft losses in Afghanistan · involving C-130 Hercules
Other	Airships · US news aircraft · Spaceflight
Deaths	by aircraft misadventure · of notables · Sole survivors
Related topics	Air safety · Aircraft hijacking · Aviation archaeology · Air crash investigators · Accident analysis
For more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO) and Aviation Safety Network websites.

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