Mid-air collision

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PSA Flight 182's Boeing 727 in flames and out of control after colliding with another aircraft in 1978.
PSA Flight 182's Boeing 727 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 relatively high velocities involved and any subsequent impact on the ground or sea, very severe damage or the total destruction of at least one of the aircraft involved usually results. As the first table below indicates, the chance of surviving a major mid-air collision is virtually nil in the absence of ejector seats and parachutes.

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-air collisions in U.S. airspace, the Air National Guard Flight Safety Division created the See and Avoid web portal. In late 2006, the U.S. Defense Safety Oversight Council (DSOC) recognized and funded the site as its official civil/military midair collision prevention website, with participation by all the services.

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[edit] List of notable civilian mid-air collisions

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Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective. (March 2008)
D = Number of deaths;  S = Number of survivors
Date D S Flights involved Site
1938 Aug 24 45 Two Japanese aircraft Ōmori, Tokyo, Japan
1945 Jul 12 3 Eastern Air Lines flight / US Army B-25 flight  ?Syracuse
1949 Nov 1 55 1 Eastern Air Lines 537 / Lockheed P-38 test flight Washington, D.C.
1951 Apr 25 43 0 Cubana de Aviación 493 / US Navy flight Key West, Florida
1955 Jan 12 15 0 TWA flight / Private flight Boone County, Kentucky
1956 Jun 30 128 0 UA Flight 718 / TWA Flight 2 Grand Canyon, Arizona
1960 Dec 16 134 0 UA Flight 826 / TWA Flight 266 New York City, New York
1963 Feb 1 87 Middle East Airlines Flight 265 / Turkish Air Force flight Ankara, Turkey
1967 Mar 9 26 0 TWA Flight 553 / Private flight Urbana, Ohio
1967 Jul 19 82 0 Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 / Lanseair Inc. flight Hendersonville, North Carolina
1969 Sep 9 82 0 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 / Private flight Fairland, Indiana
1971 Jul 30 162 1 ANA Flight 58 / JASDF flight near Shizukuishi, Japan
1976 Jun 6 50 1 Hughes Airwest Flight 706 / US Marines flight San Gabriel Mountains, California
1976 Sep 10 176 0 BA Flight 476 / Inex-Adria Flight 550 near Zagreb, Croatia
1978 Sep 25 144 0 PSA Flight 182 / Private flight San Diego, California
1979 Aug 11 178 0 Aeroflot 65816 / Aeroflot 65735 Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine
1986 Aug 31 82 0 Aeroméxico Flight 498 / Private flight Cerritos, California
1996 Nov 12 349 0 Saudi Airlines Flight 763 / Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 Charkhi Dadri, India
2002 Jul 1 71 0 Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 / DHL Flight 611 Überlingen, Germany
2006 Sep 29 154 7 Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 / ExcelAire flight Amazon Rainforest, Brazil
2007 Jul 27 4 0 KNXV-TV news helicopter / KTVK news helicopter Phoenix, Arizona

[edit] List of notable military mid-air collisions

D = Number of deaths;  S = Number of survivors
Date D S Aircraft involved Site
1966 Jun 8 2 1 XB-70 Valkyrie prototype / F-104 Starfighter near Barstow, California
1985 Jul 5 1 Two A-4F Skyhawk aircraft of the Blue Angels Niagara Falls
1988 Aug 28 75 Three Aermacchi MB-339PAN aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori Ramstein Air Base, Germany
1997 Sep 13 33 Luftwaffe Tu-154 / USAF C-141 Namibia, Africa

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