1972 Chicago–O'Hare runway collision

1972 Chicago–O'Hare
runway collision
North Central Airlines Flight 575 · Delta Air Lines Flight 954
	The remains of the Delta Air Lines Convair 880 involved in the collision, stripped of parts and awaiting scrapping, photographed at O'Hare International Airport on January 31, 1974. .
Accident
Date	December 20, 1972
Summary	Runway incursion caused by pilot error and ATC error due to failures in communication
Site	O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, United States ; 41°58′09″N 87°54′04″W
Total fatalities	10
Total injuries	17
Total survivors	128
First aircraft
	; North Central Airlines DC-9-31 N960N, similar to the accident aircraft, photographed in 1971.
Type	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31
Operator	North Central Airlines
Registration	N954N
Flight origin	O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Stopover	Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Destination	Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupants	45
Passengers	41
Crew	4
Fatalities	10
Injuries	15
Survivors	35
Second aircraft
	; The Delta Air Lines Convair CV-880 involved in the accident, photographed at O'Hare International Airport on April 24, 1971.
Type	Convair CV-880
Operator	Delta Air Lines
Registration	N8807E
Flight origin	Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Destination	O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupants	93
Passengers	86
Crew	7
Fatalities	0
Injuries	2
Survivors	93

On December 20, 1972, North Central Airlines Flight 575 and Delta Air Lines Flight 954 collided on a runway at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Ten people died – all on the North Central aircraft – and 17 were injured in the accident.^: 1 This was the second major airliner accident to happen in Chicago in December 1972; the other was United Airlines Flight 553, which crashed twelve days earlier on approach to Midway Airport.

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