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If you found this video to be interesting, be sure to subscribe as there is a new video every Saturday. This video also went out to my Patrons on Patreon 48 hours before going out publicly. Consider joining here from £1 per month: https://www.patreon.com/DisasterBreakdown Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chloe_HowieCB The concept of the midair collision is horrifying if you are an air traveler. It’s about the last thing you’d ever want to be involved in. It carries such a deadly connotation with it. We’ve looked at a number of midair collisions over the years. Perhaps though none are more systemically egregious than that of the Zagreb incident. Where this midair collision differs from most we have talked about recently, is that this accident occurred in high altitude airspace, in what was supposed to be some of the most closely watched airways in Europe. This wasn’t during approach, not involving small private planes. This was a case of, large planes, high altitude, same place same time. Forget for a moment, all of the technology that has been developed over the years to prevent this exact type of accident. Its 1976, you’re an air traffic controller, you’re sat there looking at your radar screen as two radar echoes merge then disappear. Imagine for a moment the weight one must have to carry knowing they had a direct hand in what was the deadliest midair collision to have ever occurred at that time. The Zagreb disaster is by the way still to this day the third deadliest accident in this category. This was the burden given to one unfortunate controller on September 10th, 1976. However as we go through this story, we’ll stumble across numerous problems plaguing Yugoslavia airspace, and many people in the years since this disaster have questioned whether the Air Traffic Controller was really the one at fault. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f5bf40f0b6134200052f/5-1977_G-AWZT__and_YU-AJR.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f5c040f0b61342000531/5-1977_G-AWZT_and_YU-AJR_Append.pdf https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/philosophy-of-blame-the-story-of-the-1976-zagreb-mid-air-collision-38202bfc1ad7 https://web.archive.org/web/20080608044506/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946615,00.html https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/32185-in-history-the-1976-zagreb-mid-air-collision https://www.jutarnji.hr/naslovnica/jos-sanjam-kofere-kako-padaju-s-neba-3890418 https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zrakoplovna_nesre%C4%87a_pokraj_Zagreba_1976. https://totalinfo.hr/video-svjedocanstva-mario-mihaljevic-javljao-je-o-sudaru-zrakoplova-iznad-vrbovca-sa-176-poginulih/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZrJoU8pqkI&t=1500s