Airplane collision in the air

Explosion of an F-104 Starfighter after a collision with a North American XB-70 on June 8, 1966

An aircraft collision in the air (English: mid-air collision ) is an aircraft accident in which an aircraft comes into contact with another aircraft in the air. Such a collision usually leads to the crash of at least one of the aircraft involved.

After a series of collisions in the air in the 1950s, the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) was developed from 1956 , which was finally introduced in the USA at the end of the 1980s.

For an overview of such accidents, see List of Airplane Collisions .

Web links

Commons : Mid-air collisions  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Study on approaches and collisions of aircraft in German airspace 2010-2015 (PDF, 1 MB)