The 1963 Ankara mid-air collision occurred on Friday, 1 February 1963 over Ankara, Turkey when Middle East Airlines Flight 265, a Vickers 754D Viscount completing a flight from Cyprus, came in for landing and collided in the air with a Turkish Air Force Douglas C-47A; after which both planes fell directly onto the city below them.

The aircraft involved was a Vickers 754D Viscount, registered OD-ADE and owned by Middle East Airlines.

An orange plexiglass panel was placed in front of him on the left side of the windshield to prevent seeing outside as part of instrument training.

[4] According to meteorological data, at 15:00 in the sky over Ankara clouds were present with a lower boundary of 3,000 feet (910 m), visibility was 10-20 kilometers.

Air traffic control ordered Flight 265 to report when they began descent for landing on runway 03.

At 13:07 GMT the aircraft reported altitude at flight level 100, and asked it they needed to enter a holding pattern; they had not checked in with Ankara air traffic control but would soon.

The ICAO laid blame on the Viscount pilot for: incorrectly estimating the distance between Gölbaşı and Ankara; failing to comply with international standards for radio communications; and failing to follow the flight plan by flying under VFR instead of planned IFR conditions.