LIST OF NOTABLE CIVILIAN MID-AIR COLLISIONS
DATE (TOLL) - AIRCRAFT - COLLISION SITE
1938 Aug 24 (45) - Japanese Flying School (Hanriot HD-1) and Japan Airlines Transportation (Universal) - Over Omori, Tokyo
1945 Jul 12 (3) - Eastern Airlines and US Army (B-25) - Over Syracuse, SC
1949 Nov 1 (55) - Eastern Airlines 537 (DC4) and Bolivian Gov't (Lockheed P-38) - Over Washington, D.C.
1951 Apr 25 (43) - Cubana de Aviacion 493 (DC4) and US Navy (Beechcraft) - Over Key West, Florida
1955 Jan 12 (15) - TWA (Martin 202) and Private (DC3) - Near Greater Cincinnati Airport (CVG), in Boone County, Kentucky.
1956 Jun 30 (128) - UA718 (DC7) and TWA2 (Lockheed L-1049) - Over the Grand Canyon, Arizona
1960 Dec 16 (134) - UA826 (DC8) and TWA266 (Lockheed L-1049) - Over New York City
1963 Feb 1 (87) - Middle East Airlines 265 (Vickers Viscount) and Turkish Air Force (C-47 CBK28) - Over Ankara, Turkey
1967 Mar 9 (26) - TWA553 (DC9) and Private (Beechcraft) - Over Urbana, Ohio
1967 Jul 19 (82) - Piedmont Airlines 22 (Boeing 727) and Lanseair Inc. (Cessna 310) - Near Hendersonville, North Carolina
1969 Sep 9 (82) - Allegheny Airlines 853 (DC9) and Private (Piper Cheerokee) - Near Fairland, Indiana
1971 Jul 30 (162) - ANA58 (Boeing 727) and JASDF (F86 fighter) - Near Shizukuishi, Japan
1976 Jun 6 (50) - Hughes Airwest 706 (DC9) and US Marines (F-4B Phantom) - Over San Gabriel Mountains, California
1976 Sep 10 (176) - BA476 (Trident 3B) and Inex-Adria 550 (DC9) near Zagreb, Croatia
1978 Sep 25 (144) - PSA182 (Boeing727) and Private (Cessna 172) - Over San Diego, California
1979 Aug 11 (178) - Aeroflot (Tupolev Tu-134) and Aeroflot (Tupolev Tu-134) - Near Dniprodzerzhynsk, USSR (now Ukraine)
1986 Aug 31 (82) - Aeroméxico 498 (DC9) and Private (Piper Cheerokee) - Over Cerritos, California
1996 Nov 12 (349) - Saudia 763 (Boeing 747) and Kazakhstan Airlines 1907 (Ilyushin Il-76) - Over Charkhi Dadri, India
2002 Jul 1 (71) - Bashkirian Airlines 2937 (Tupolev 154) and DHL611 (Boeing 757) - Over Überlingen, Germany
2006 Sep 29 (154) - Gol Transportes Aéreos 1907 (Boeing 737) and ExcelAire (Embraer Legacy 600) - Over the Amazon in Brazil
2007 Jul 27 (4) - Two news helicopters from TV stations KNXV-TV and KTVK collide - Over Phoenix, Arizona
2008 Jan 20 (4) - Two Cessnas, near the small Corona Municipal airport and a freeway in Riverside County, Los Angeles, California
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