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Encyclopedia > Mid air collision
The doomed Boeing 727, PSA Flight 182, crashes in flames after colliding with another aircraft in 1978
The doomed Boeing 727, PSA Flight 182, crashes in flames 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 (if not total destruction) of all aircraft involved. Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182 as it crashes over San Diego File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182 as it crashes over San Diego File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... PSA Flight 182 was a Pacific Southwest Airlines commercial flight that flew on a Sacramento-Los Angeles-San Diego route. ... Aviation refers to flying using aircraft, machines designed by humans for atmospheric flight. ... A railing accidentally collapses at a college football game, spilling fans onto the sidelines An accident is something going wrong unexpectedly. ...

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List of notable mid air collisions

Date (Toll) - Aircraft - Collision Site

// Accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft grouped by the year that the incident or accident occurred. ... // Accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft grouped by the year that the incident or accident occurred. ... Eastern Airlines Flight 537, registration N88727, was a Douglas DC-4 aircraft en route from Boston, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. via intermediate points on November 1, 1949. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Trans World Airlines / Castleton Inc. ... United Airlines Flight 718, headed for Chicago, Illinois, and Trans World Airlines, headed for Kansas City, Missouri, took off from Los Angeles Airport shortly after 9:00 A.M. on Saturday, June 30, 1956. ... The 1960 New York air disaster was of one the worst airplane crashes in history, killing 127 air passengers and six more on the ground. ... // Accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft grouped by the year that the incident or accident occurred. ... |} TWA Flight 553, registration N1063T, was a Douglas DC-9-15 enroute from Pittsburgh to Dayton that collided in mid-air with a Beechcraft Baron over Urbana, Ohio on March 9, 1967. ... Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 was a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 on a scheduled airline flight in the United States from Asheville Regional Airport in Asheville, North Carolina to Roanoke Regional Airport in Roanoke, Virginia. ... Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 at approximately 3550 feet on September 9, 1969 near Fairland, Indiana. ... The crash of All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 58, also known as the Shizukuishi aircraft accident occurred on July 30, 1971. ... Flight 706 was a Hughes Airwest commercial flight that flew from Los Angeles, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah. ... Zagreb FIR in 1976, showing route of BEA476 (red) and JP550 (green) The Zagreb mid-air collision refers to one of the worst accidents in aviation history. ... PSA Flight 182 was a Pacific Southwest Airlines commercial flight that flew on a Sacramento-Los Angeles-San Diego route. ... Aeroméxico Flight 498 was a scheduled commercial airline flight, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 bound for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California, USA from Mexico CityMexico. ... // Plane and flight information November 12, 1996 1. ... Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 was a Russian aircraft which collided with a DHL-owned cargo plane, on July 1, 2002 at 21:35 (UTC), near the German town of Überlingen, near Lake Constance. ... Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 was a Boeing 737-800 SFP, registration PR-GTD, on a scheduled passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, with a planned stop in Brasília on September 29, 2006. ...

List of notable military mid air collisions

  • 1966 June 8 (2) - The last test flight of the prototype XB-70 Valkyrie with an F-104 [1]

The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was conceived for the Strategic Air Command in the 1950s as a high-altitude bomber that could fly three times the speed of sound (Mach 3). ...

List of notable runway collisions

The Tenerife disaster took place on March 27, 1977, at 17:06 local time (also GMT), when two Boeing 747 airliners collided at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, killing 583 people. ... // Accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft grouped by the year that the incident or accident occurred. ... USAir Flight 1493 was a Boeing 737-300 commercial jet en route from Syracuse Hancock International Airport, New York to Los Angeles International Airport, California via Port Columbus International Airport, Ohio on 1 February 1991. ... The Linate Airport disaster occurred on October 8, 2001, at Linate Airport in Milan, Italy. ...

Trivia

During the September 11, 2001 attacks it was believed that President Bush's aircraft, Air Force One, was a "real and credible" target for attack — possibly a deliberate Kamikaze-style attack by another aircraft. However this report turned out to be a false alarm. A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Air Force One is the air traffic control call sign of any U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. ... It has been suggested that Personnel involved in the development of World War II suicide attacks be merged into this article or section. ...


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