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)
“I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous—a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision invoked against everything that had previously been believed, demanded, sanctified. I am no man, I am dynamite!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)