Mid-air collisions

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Chapters: Ramstein airshow disaster, Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907, North American XB-70 Valkyrie, United Airlines Flight 736, 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision, Hughes Airwest Flight 706, PSA Flight 182, 2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision, Hainan Island incident, List of mid air collisions and mid air incidents in the United Kingdom, 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, 1960 New York air disaster, 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision, American Airlines Flight 28, 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision, Aeroméxico Flight 498, 1958 Tybee Island B-47 crash, 1948 Gatow air disaster, Northwood mid-air collision, 1993 Auckland mid-air collision, Eastern Air Lines Flight 537, 1965 Carmel mid-air collision, American Airlines Flight 910, 1974 Norfolk mid-air collision, 2007 Phoenix news helicopter collision, Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, First mid-air collision of airliners, Cubana de Aviación Flight 493, Golden West Airlines Flight 261, 2009 California mid-air collision, 2009 Iranian Air Force mid-air collision, 1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision, All Nippon Airways Flight 58, Eastern Airlines Flight 45, Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2254, Grand Canyon Airlines Flight 6, 1953 Mediterranean Sea Lancaster and Valetta mid-air collision, 1949 Exhall mid-air collision, 1979 Ukraine Aeroflot mid-air collision, TWA Flight 553, 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster, 1960 Rio de Janeiro air crash, Aeroflot Flight SSSR-65856, 2007 Radom Air Show crash, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103. Excerpt: Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 (ICAO: GLO 1907) was a Boeing 737-8EH, registration PR-GTD, on a scheduled passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil to Rio de Janeiro. On September 29, 2006, just before 17:00 BRT, it collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet over the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. All 154 passengers and crew aboard the Boeing 737 were killed when the aircraft broke up in midair and crashed into an area of dense rainforest, while the Embraer Legacy, despite sustaining serious damage to its left wing and tail, landed safely with its seven occupants uninjured. The accident, which triggered a crisis in Brazilian civil aviation, was the deadliest in that country's aviation history at the time, surpassing VASP Flight 168, which crashed in 1982 with 137 fatalities near Fortaleza. It was subsequently surpassed by TAM Airlines Flight 3054, which crashed on July 17, 2007 with 199 fatalities. It was also the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 737 (all series) aircraft at that time. It was subsequently surpassed by Air India Express Flight 812, which crashed at Mangalore, India on May 22, 2010 with 158 fatalities. The accident was investigated by both the Brazilian Air Force, the Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (Portuguese: (CENIPA)) and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), with a final report issued on December 10, 2008. CENIPA concluded that the accident was caused by errors committed both by air traffic controllers and by the American pilots, while the NTSB determined that all pilots acted properly and were placed on a collision course by a variety of "individual and institutional" air traffic control errors. A similar model of the Gol aircraftThe Gol Transportes Aéreos twin turbofan Boeing 737-8EH aircraft, a new Short Field Performance variant, had been delivered to Gol on September 12, 2006, sev...