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Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision

Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763
Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907
Accident summary
Date 12 November 1996
Summary Mid-air collision caused by pilot error on Kazakhstan Airlines aircraft
Site Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India
Total fatalities 349
Total survivors 0
First aircraft
Boeing 747-168B, Saudia - Saudi Arabian Airlines AN0217717.jpg
HZ-AIA, a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B similar to the aircraft involved in the collision.
Type Boeing 747-168B
Operator Saudi Arabian Airlines
Registration HZ-AIH
Flight origin Indira Gandhi Int'l Airport
Delhi, India
Destination Dhahran International Airport
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Passengers 289
Crew 23
Fatalities 312
Survivors 0
Second aircraft
Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76TD Goetting-1.jpg
UN-76435, the Kazakhstan Airlines aircraft involved in the accident, in 1994.
Type Ilyushin Il-76TD
Operator Kazakhstan Airlines
Registration UN-76435
Flight origin Shymkent Int'l Airport
Destination Indira Gandhi Int'l Airport
Passengers 27
Crew 10
Fatalities 37
Survivors 0
External image
Pre-Crash photos of the two airliners at Airliners.net

The Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision occurred on 12 November 1996 over the village of Charkhi Dadri, to the west of New Delhi, India. The aircraft involved were a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B en route from Delhi to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 en route from Chimkent, Kazakhstan, to Delhi. The crash killed all 349 people on board both planes, making it the world's deadliest mid-air collision, the deadliest aviation accident to occur in India, and the third-deadliest aircraft accident in the history of aviation, behind only the Tenerife airport disaster and Japan Airlines Flight 123.

The Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) Boeing 747-168B, registration HZ-AIH, was flying the first leg of a scheduled international DelhiDhahranJeddah passenger service as Flight SVA763 with 312 occupants on board; the Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76TD, registration UN-76435, was on a charter service from Chimkent to Delhi as KZA1907. SVA763 departed Delhi at 18:32 local time. KZA1907 was, at the same time, descending to land at Delhi. Both flights were controlled by approach controller VK Dutta. The crew of SVA763 consisted of Captain Khalid Al Shubaily, First Officer Nazir Khan, and Flight Engineer Edris. On KZA1907, Gennadi Cherepanov served as the pilot and Egor Repp served as the radio operator.


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