1976 Zagreb mid-air collision
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 10 September 1976 |
| Summary | Mid-air collision |
| Site | Samoborec, Croatia, Yugoslavia 45°53′33″N 16°18′38″E / 45.89250°N 16.31056°E |
| Total fatalities | 176 |
| Total survivors | 0 |
| First aircraft | |
| G-AWZT, the Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B involved in the collision | |
| Type | Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B |
| Operator | British Airways |
| IATA flight No. | BA476 |
| ICAO flight No. | BAW476 |
| Call sign | BEALINE 476 |
| Registration | G-AWZT |
| Flight origin | Heathrow Airport London, United Kingdom |
| Destination | Yeşilköy International Airport Istanbul, Turkey |
| Occupants | 63 |
| Passengers | 54 |
| Crew | 9 |
| Fatalities | 63 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Second aircraft | |
| YU-AJR, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 involved in the collision | |
| Type | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 |
| Operator | Inex-Adria Aviopromet |
| IATA flight No. | JP550 |
| ICAO flight No. | ADR550 |
| Call sign | ADRIA 550 |
| Registration | YU-AJR |
| Flight origin | Split Airport Split, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia |
| Destination | Cologne Bonn Airport Cologne, West Germany |
| Occupants | 113 |
| Passengers | 108 |
| Crew | 5 |
| Fatalities | 113 |
| Survivors | 0 |
The 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision was a mid-air collision that took place on September 10, 1976, when British Airways Flight 476 en route from London to Istanbul, collided mid-air with Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550 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.
All 176 people aboard the two aircraft were killed,: 8 : 5–6 making it the world's deadliest mid-air collision at the time. It remains the deadliest aviation accident in Yugoslav and Croatian history. This is also the only British Airways accident to result in fatalities excluding subsidiaries or former identities.