1976 Zagreb mid-air collision
The 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision took place on 10 September 1976, when British Airways Flight 476, a Hawker Siddeley Trident en route from London to Istanbul, collided mid-air with Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 en route from Split, SFR Yugoslavia, to Cologne, West Germany, near Zagreb in modern-day Croatia. The collision was the result of a procedural error on the part of air traffic controllers in Zagreb.
G-AWZT, the Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B involved in the collision
YU-AJR, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 involved in the collision
Memorial to some of the dead
British Airways plc (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in London, England, near its main hub at Heathrow Airport.
A Boeing 747-100 in BOAC-British Airways transition livery (1976)
A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident in its transitional scheme with BEA livery but with British Airways titles.
British Airways' first Concorde at Heathrow Airport, on 15 January 1976.
A British Airways Lockheed TriStar in Landor livery