Zoran Modli (

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: Зоран Модли, 22 April 1948 – 23 February 2020) was a Serbian

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, and

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. He was one of the most popular Yugoslav radio personalities, running one of the most notable radio shows of the early 1980s in Yugoslavia, ''

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''.

Biography

Modli was born in

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. He wrote the lyrics for the

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of the second single by the rock band

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, released in 1972. The song is titled "U tami disko kluba". ''Ventilator 202'' became best known for publishing the first demo recordings of some bands that were yet to become very popular all across Yugoslavia, such as EKV, Partibrejkers, and

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. Modli left the show in 1987. He ran a successful radio show '' Modulacije'' in the 1990s, and since 2000 he ran ''ZAIR'' (''Zakon akcije i reakcije''), a radio show about the new technologies, that is broadcast on numerous Serbian radio stations. He was also a writer, author of numerous commercials and an expert in the fields of technical innovations and computer science. Modli was a professional pilot for over 30 years. He spent the first 20 years in the state-owned Jat Airways, piloting a

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, and then moved to a private airlines company

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. On 15 July 2010, Modli survived a landing accident at the Bol Airport in

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, piloting a

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, when the plane ran off the runway and caught fire. All the passengers survived without injuries, but Modli left his job, as he considered that bad landing procedure was his own mistake. This was also the reason why in the first chapter of his next book, the "Pilot Book" (2012), Modli described this flight in detail, in order to alert future young pilots to never overestimate their own abilities so as not to repeat the mistake he had made.David Albahari i ja bili smo prvi di-džejevi u Zemunu
Modli died in

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, where he ran ''ZAIR'' and maintained a personal website that was proclaimed one of the best 50 in Serbia in 2001, 2003 and 2004 by a professional computer magazine '' PC Press''. Zoran_Modli_1969_Early_beginnings_of_DJ_era.jpg 1979_Zoran_Modli_in_TV_show.jpg 1982_Golden_years_of_Ventilator_202_-_Zoran_Modli_is_waiting_for_guests_in_Radio_Belgrade%27s_studio_VI.jpg 2006_Zoran_Modli_with_Jay_Kay_of_Jamiroquai_at_Nirnberg_airport.jpg 2005_Zoran_Modli_besides_Boeing_727-200_at_Bucharest_airport.jpg 2009_Zoran_Modli_as_Prince_Aviation_captain_portrait.jpg Zoran_Modli_beside_the_radio_portrait_by_Andrej_Cukic.jpg

References

* * * * http://www.kisobran.com/arhiva/2008/jun/pdf/32.pdf

External links

Official site
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