From Charkhi Dadri to Air India Ahmedabad-London Plane Crash: India’s Worst Aviation Disasters
- A mid-air collision near Delhi, India, between a Saudi Arabian passenger plane and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 on a November day in 1996 resulted in the loss of all passengers and crew aboard both aircraft.
- The collision resulted from the Kazakh pilots descending below their assigned altitude due to language barriers and crew inattention despite controller instructions to maintain separation.
- The Lahoti Commission found that inadequate English comprehension and a casual crew attitude caused the unauthorized descent that led to the fatal collision.
- The crash claimed 349 lives, and the Court of Inquiry stated the single air corridor at Delhi did not contribute to the accident, highlighting pilot error as key.
- This disaster remains India's deadliest mid-air collision, prompting changes in aviation communication protocols and air traffic management to improve flight safety.
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Deadly civilian plane crashes in India over the decades
NEW DELHI, India: An Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, the airline and police said, and India’s federal health minister said that “many people” were killed. Following are details of some other airline accidents in India in recent years: AUGUST 2020 Twenty-one people
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