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What (who) is mid-flight - definition

FATAL MID AIR COLLISION IN 1976

Zagreb mid-air collision; British Airways Flight 476; Inex-Adria Flight 550; Flight JP550; JP550; JP 550; BEA476; Adria 550; Bealine 476; Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550

mid-flight

Caught in the act, this also goes along with the deer in the headlights look.
Caught you mid-flight, you jackass.

mid-day

A MORNING DAILY INDIAN COMPACT NEWSPAPER

Mid-day; Mid Day; MiD-DAY; MiD DAY; Sunday Mid-Day; Mid-Day.com

I. a.

Meridional.

II. n.

Noon, noontide, meridian, high noon.

Maiden flight

FIRST OCCASION ON WHICH AN AIRCRAFT OR SPACECRAFT LEAVES THE GROUND UNDER ITS OWN POWER

Inaugural flight; Maiden flights; First flight

The maiden flight, also known as first flight, of an aircraft is the first occasion on which it leaves the ground under its own power. The same term is also used for the first launch of rockets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_flight

Wikipedia

1976 Zagreb mid-air collision

The 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision took place on 10 September 1976, when British Airways Flight 476, a Hawker Siddeley Trident en route from London to Istanbul, collided mid-air with Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550, a Douglas DC-9 en route from Split, SFR Yugoslavia, to Cologne, West Germany, near Zagreb in modern-day Croatia. The collision was the result of a procedural error on the part of air traffic controllers in Zagreb.

All 176 people aboard the two aircraft were killed,^: 8^: 5–6 making it the world's deadliest mid-air collision at the time. It remains the deadliest aviation accident in Yugoslav and Croatian history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976 Zagreb mid-air collision

Examples of use of mid-flight

1. Spitfire pilots quickly learned to flip over a doodlebug with their wings in mid–flight.

2. ET My iPod shuffled its way to Pete Fountain mid flight.

3. Journalists‘ electronic devices, from cellphones to iPods, were confiscated until mid–flight.

4. An aeronautical engineer told me I was lucky the cabin had not depressurised in mid–flight.

5. There are helicopter crashes every year after their pilots become disoriented in mid–flight, he said.