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The Grand Canyon mid-air collision occurred in the western United States on June 30, 1956, when a United Airlines Douglas DC-7 struck a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation over Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.
United Airlines Flight 2428 had to slow its descent to San Francisco International Airport to avoid a possible mid-air collision on Thursday, Sept. 19
The Delta Airlines flight was an Airbus A330-300 coming in from Detroit, while the United Airlines flight was a Boeing 737-900 coming in from San Francisco, according to local news outlet KPNX ...
Two passengers were injured on a United Airlines flight headed to San Francisco after the pilots responded to an onboard midair collision system warning, the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN.
United Air Lines Flight 736 was a scheduled transcontinental passenger service flown daily by United Airlines between Los Angeles and New York City. On April 21, 1958, the airliner assigned to the flight, a Douglas DC-7 with 47 on board, was flying over Clark County, Nevada in clear weather when it was involved in a daytime mid-air collision with a United States Air Force fighter jet crewed by ...
Almost all modern large aircraft are fitted with a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS), which is designed to try to prevent mid-air collisions. The system, based on the signals from aircraft transponders, alerts pilots if a potential collision with another aircraft is imminent. Despite its limitations, it is believed to have greatly ...
The 1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision occurred between a TWA Martin 2-0-2 and a Douglas DC-2 on January 12, 1955, killing all on board both aircraft. TWA Flight 128 struck trees on final approach and crashed 9,357 feet (2,852 m) short of the runway at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on November 20, 1967. [99]
Audio from a person in air traffic control became panicked as it tried to warn the Alaksa flight to change direction when it became dangerously close to the other plane mid-air.