Featured Map for 12 November 2016:
Deadliest Mid-Air Collision, Near New Delhi 20 Years Ago

30 years ago, on 12 November 1996, a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76TD arriving New Delhi after a charter flight from Shymkent descended below its assigned altitude of 15,000 feet and collided in a cloud with a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-168B at 14,000 feet which had departed New Delhi on scheduled flight SV 763 to Dhahran and continuing on to Jeddah. The collision destroyed both aircraft and killed all 349 passengers and crew, the deadliest mid-air collision and the third-deadliest aircraft accident ever after the ground collision at Tenerife on 27 March 1977 (583 killed) and the crash of Japan Airlines flight 8119 on 12 August 1985 (520 killed).

Today's Featured Map shows the arrival of Kazakhstan Airlines flight 1907 (blue) via the ESDEM transition to airway G542 and the AKBAN Arrival, and the departure path of Saudi flight 763 (green).

References and additional information:

• Aviation Safety Network (ASN)
  • ASN Aircraft Accident Boeing 747-168B HZ-AIH Charki Dadri
  • ASN Aircraft Accident Ilyushin 76TD UN-76435 Charki Dadri
  • ASN Aircraft Accident Boeing 747-121 N736PA Neterife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport (TFN)
  • ASN Aircraft Accident Boeing 747-206B PH-BUF Neterife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport (TFN)
  • ASN Aircraft Accident Boeing 747SR-46 JA8119 Ueno Village, Tano District, Gunma Prefecture