List of mid-air aircraft collisions

The list of aircraft collisions in the air names aircraft accidents since 1945 in which at least one commercial aircraft came into contact with another aircraft in the air and crashed.

In addition, accidents in which civilian aircraft collided with military aircraft, as well as collisions between military aircraft, are named according to the definition above.

Civil aviation

date	dead	Survivors	Involved flights	place
January 12, 1955	15th		Cincinnati Airplane Collision, TWA Flight ( Martin 2-0-2 ) / Private Plane	Boone County , Kentucky , USA
June 30, 1956	128		United Airlines Flight 718 / TWA Flight 2	Grand Canyon , Arizona, USA
May 19, 1960	2	38	Air Algérie flight (Sud Aviation Caravelle) / private plane	13 km southeast of Paris-Orly Airport , France
December 16, 1960	134		United Airlines Flight 826 / TWA Flight 266	New York City , New York, USA
4th December 1965	04th	108	TWA Flight 42 / Eastern Air Lines Flight 853	Carmel , New York , USA
March 9, 1967	26th		TWA flight 553 / private plane	Urbana , Ohio , USA
July 19, 1967	82		Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 / Lanseair Inc.	Hendersonville , North Carolina , USA
9th September 1969	82		Allegheny Airlines Douglas DC-9-31 / Piper PA-28	Fairland , Indiana , USA
20th July 1970	3	100	Condor flight 316 / private plane	near Tarragona , Spain
March 5th 1973	62	107	Iberia flight 504 / Spantax flight 400	near Nantes , France
January 9, 1975	14th		Golden West Airlines DHC-6 Twin Otter / Cessna 150	near Whittier , California, USA
September 9, 1976	70		Aeroflot flight 7957 / Aeroflot flight C-31	near Anapa , Russia
September 10, 1976	176		BA flight 476 / Inex Adria flight 550	near Zagreb , today Croatia
September 25, 1978	144		PSA flight 182 / private plane	San Diego , California, USA
August 11, 1979	178		Aeroflot flight 7628 / Aeroflot flight 7880	Dniprodzerzhynsk , today Ukraine
August 31, 1986	82		Aeroméxico flight 498 / private plane	Cerritos , California, USA
November 12, 1996	349		Saudi Airlines Flight 763 / Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907	Charkhi Dadri , India
July 30, 1998	15th		Proteus Airlines Flight 706 / private plane	Quiberon , France
July 1, 2002	71		Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 / DHL Flight 611	Ueberlingen , Germany
September 29, 2006	154	07th	Gol Transportes Aéreos flight 1907 / ExcelAire flight	Amazon rainforest, Brazil
5th September 2015	7th	112	Ceiba Intercontinental Airlines Flight 71  / Senegalair Hawker Siddeley HS.125	Senegal

Civil / military aviation collisions

date	dead	Survivors	Aircraft involved	place
July 12, 1945	003	23	Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-3 / US Army A-26	near Florence , South Carolina , USA
November 1, 1949	055	01	Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 / Lockheed P-38 test flight	Washington, DC , USA
April 25, 1951	043		Cubana Douglas DC-4 / US Navy SNB-1 Kansan	Key West , Florida , USA
April 21, 1958	049		United Air Lines Flight 736 / F-100 Super Saber	Sloan , Nevada , USA
1st February 1963	104		Middle East Airlines Viscount / Turkish Air Force Douglas DC-3	Ankara , Turkey
20th September 1969	076	01	Air Vietnam Douglas DC-4 / F-4 Phantom II , US Air Force	Da Nang Airport , South Vietnam
June 6, 1971	050	01	Hughes Airwest Flight 706 / F-4 Phantom II , US Marines	San Gabriel Mountains , California, USA
July 30, 1971	162	01	All Nippon Airways Flight 58 / North American F-86 of the JASDF	at Shizukuishi , Iwate , Japan
2nd August 1977	000	02	Lockheed F-104G Starfighter of the German Air Force / Astir CS 77 glider	Bad Neuenahr , Germany
August 24, 1981	043	01	Aeroflot Antonov An-24 / Tupolev Tu-16	near Sawitinsk , Soviet Union (today Russia)
June 27, 1983	007th		Mirage IIIC / Partenavia P. 68	Biberach an der Riss , Germany
June 5th 1990	001	02	General Dynamics F-16D of the US Air Force  / Glider glass leaf H 101 Salto	Teschenmoschel , Germany
June 23, 1998	001	02	Panavia MRCA Tornado of the German Air Force / Glaser Dirks DG-100 glider	Hundseck , Germany
December 22, 1999	002	01	F-16 fighter jet / Piper PA-28 Cherokee	Hoeven , Netherlands
June 23, 2014	002	01	Crash of a Learjet 35 in the Sauerland , Luftwaffe Eurofighter / Learjet during an interception exercise	Sauerland , Germany
July 7, 2015	002	01	F-16 fighter jet / Cessna 150	Charleston , USA

Military aviation

date	dead	Survivors	Involved flights	place
April 17, 1945	12	4th	Airplane collision over Dippoldiswalder Heide  / two USAAF Boeing B-17s	Dippoldiswalder Heide , Saxony , Germany
April 4th 1952	15th		USAF C-47 Skytrain  / USAF C-124 Globemaster II	Mobile , Alabama , USA
May 15, 1953	03	04th	USAF Fairchild C-119  / USAF Republic F-84	near Weinheim , Germany
August 11, 1955	66		Aircraft collision near Edelweiler / two USAF Fairchild C-119s	near Stuttgart , Germany
March 27, 1958	18th		USAF Fairchild C-119 / USAF C-124 Globemaster II	Bridgeport , Texas , USA
June 8, 1966	02	01	XB-70 Valkyrie  / F-104 Starfighter	near Barstow , California, USA
5th October 1972	3	min. 1	Bell UH-1D HTG 64 / F-104 Starfighter German Air Force	Berzhahn / Westerwald , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany
February 18, 1985	01	02	Aircraft collision over Bad Laer  /  Harrier of the Royal Air Force  / Lockheed F-104 of the German Air Force.	via Bad Laer , Germany
5th July 1985	01		two A-4F Skyhawk from the Blue Angels	Niagara Falls , New York, USA
January 6, 1986	02	01	two USAF F-15s	Zweibrücken , Germany
June 29, 1988	01	01	Airplane collision over Nackenheim , two USAF F-16C	Nackenheim , Germany
August 28, 1988	70		Ramstein flight conference accident  / three Aermacchi MB-339 from Frecce Tricolori	Ramstein Air Base , Germany
3rd September 1989	01	01	two Canadair CL-41 Snowbirds during the Canadian International Air Show	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
April 17, 1990	01	01	two McDonnell Douglas F / A-18s of the Canadian Forces	Karlsruhe , Germany
June 12, 1996	18th	10	two UH-60 Black Hawk of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment	Townsville , Australia
September 13, 1997	33		Airplane collision off Namibia in 1997 : Tupolew Tu-154M Open Skies (a German Tupolew Tu-154 ) and Lockheed C-141 of the USAF	South Atlantic , off Namibia , Africa
November 6, 2002	01		two MiG-29s of the Slovak Air Force	near Spišská Nová Ves , Slovakia
February 11, 2009	04th		two Grob G 115 of the Royal Air Force	Porthcawl , Wales , United Kingdom
October 30, 2009	09		USCG C-130  / USMC AH-1 Cobra	Coast of Southern California, USA
March 15, 2015		02	two Indonesian fighter planes doing aerobatics	via Pulau Langkawi , Malaysia
April 16, 2015			two Sukhoi Su-22s of the Air Force of the Vietnamese People's Army	Sea off Vietnam near Phu Quy Island
June 9, 2016		02	two Northrop F-5 Tigers of the Swiss Air Force  / Patrouille Suisse during training for an air show	near Leeuwarden , Netherlands
June 24, 2019	01	01	two Eurofighter Typhoon of the Luftwaffe during an air combat exercise	Plau am See , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany

See also

• Lists of aircraft accidents (commercial aircraft)

Web links

• Analysis of Mid-Air Collisions , SKYbrary
• Indepth Backgrounder: Mid-air collision ( Memento from April 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), CBC
• SeeAndAvoid , DoD Civil-Military Midair Collision Prevention Portal
• Interactive Web Site Helps Pilots 'See and Avoid' Midair Collisions , DefenseLink

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.ntsb.gov (English), accessed on July 29, 2014
2. ↑ Aircraft accident B-737-100 D-ABEL Aviation Safety Network , accessed on April 2, 2019.
3. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report 3C-LLY in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
4. ^ Accident report Douglas DC-3 NC25647 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 26, 2016.
5. ^ Accident report Vickers Viscount OD-ADE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 26, 2016.
6. ^ Accident report DC-3 / C-47A CBK-28 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 26, 2016.
7. ^ Accident report DC-4 XV-NUG , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 11, 2019.
8. ↑ Luftfahrt-Bundesamt, the investigative officer: Report on the investigation of the accident (Ref .: IV 15 - 3X0394 / 77)
9. ↑ [1] Investigating Officer's Report (USAF investigation report, accessed on March 8, 2015)
10. ↑ [2] Federal Office for Aircraft Accident Investigation: Investigation Report 3X191-1 / 2/98, July 1999 (accessed on March 8, 2015)
11. ↑ http://krant.telegraaf.nl/krant/archief/19991223/teksten/bin.cessna.html
12. ^ F-16 jet, Cessna plane collide over South Carolina; 2 dead on CNN, July 8, 2015, accessed July 9, 2015
13. ↑ http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=75328&lang=de
14. ↑ Frontal crash in the air. Retrieved March 15, 2015 . 
15. ↑ China Radio International Pilots Missing after Two Su-22 Fighter Jets Collide in Central Vietnam. Retrieved April 17, 2015 . 
16. ↑ Swiss television Patrouille Suisse: Both pilots are doing well after an aircraft accident. Retrieved October 16, 2016 . 
17. ↑ "Euro Fighter" -Absturz in Mecklenburg Fatales maneuvers. In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .