Flights
British Airways Flight 476 departed Heathrow at 08:32 UTC as flight BEA476 with 54 passengers on board and a crew of 9. At the controls of the Trident 3B was an experienced captain Dennis Tann (born 1932), who by the time of the accident had accumulated 10,781 flying hours. He was assisted by first officer Brian Helm and acting first officer Martin Flint.
Inex-Adria Flight 550 departed Split, Yugoslavia at 09:48 UTC bound for Cologne, West Germany as flight JP550. It carried 108 passengers, mostly German holiday-makers returning home at the end of a holiday on the Dalmatian coast, and a crew of 5. At the controls sat captain Jože Krumpak (born 1925), an experienced pilot with 10,157 flying hours, and first officer Dušan Ivanuš. Inex-Adria was a charter airline based in Slovenia, the northern-most of the constituent republics making up the federation of Yugoslavia.
Both flights proceeded uneventfully until they reached the Zagreb VOR.
Read more about this topic: 1976 Zagreb Mid-air Collision
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