Zoran Modli ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран Модли, 22 April 1948 – 23 February 2020) was a
Serbian journalist
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism.
Roles
Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...
,
radio DJ, and
aviator
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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, ''
Ventilator 202''.
Biography
Modli was born in
Zemun
Zemun ( sr-cyrl, Земун, ; ) is a Subdivisions of Belgrade, municipality in the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934. It lies on the right bank of the Danube river, upstream from downtown ...
,
PR Serbia
The Socialist Republic of Serbia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Социјалистичка Република Србија, Socijalistička Republika Srbija), previously known as the People's Republic of Serbia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / " ...
,
FPR Yugoslavia. He wrote the lyrics for the
A-side
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of the second single by the rock band
YU grupa, 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
Rex Ilusivii. 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
Boeing 727
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After the heavier Boeing 707, 707 quad-jet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for shorter ...
, and then moved to a private airlines company
Prince Aviation. On 15 July 2010, Modli survived a landing accident at the
Bol Airport in
Croatia
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, piloting a
Cessna Citation II, 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 Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...
, 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''.
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References
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* http://www.kisobran.com/arhiva/2008/jun/pdf/32.pdf
External links
Official site
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1948 births
2020 deaths
People from Zemun
Serbian aviators
Serbian radio personalities
Serbian journalists