Charkhi Dadri Mid-air Collision
The 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision occurred on Tuesday, November 12, 1996 when, Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 (KZA 1907), an Ilyushin Il-76 en route from Shymkent, Kazakhstan, to New Delhi collided in mid-air with Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 (SVA 763), a Boeing 747-168B en route from New Delhi, India, to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, over the village of Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India. All 349 people on board both flights were killed, making it the deadliest mid-air collision and the third deadliest aircraft accident in the history of aviation, behind only Japan Airlines Flight 123 and the Tenerife airport disaster.
Read more about Charkhi Dadri Mid-air Collision: History and Cause, Crash Investigation and Report, Disaster in Popular Media
Famous quotes containing the words mid-air and/or collision:
“And in a comic mood
In mid-air take to bed a wife.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane’s rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)