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September 10

• 1981 - British Airways CEO Roy Watts announces a financial crisis for the airline. He states that the company is losing £UK 200 per minute.

• 1976 - In the worst mid-air disaster to this point, 176 people die when a British Airways BAC Trident and a Inex Adria Douglas DC-9 collide over Zagreb.

• 1960 - NORAD carries out Operation Sky Shield, testing US and Canadian radar systems.

• 1938 - Germany prohibits all foreign air traffic in its airspace except along specific air corridors.