The 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision occurred on 10 September 1976 over Vrbovec, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) when British Airways Flight 476, a Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B en route from London Heathrow Airport to Yeşilköy International Airport, Istanbul, collided in mid-air with Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550, a Douglas DC-9 en route from Split Kaštela/Resnik Airport, Yugoslavia, to Cologne Bonn Airport, West Germany, at 11:15am local time (10:15 UTC).
All 176 people aboard both flights plus one person on the ground were killed, making it, at the time, the world's deadliest mid-air collision; it had a death toll higher than that of All Nippon Airways Flight 58. It was, and remains, the only fatal accident to befall an aircraft operated by British Airways (not counting BA's ancestors), as well as the deadliest aviation accident in Croatia.
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