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Top 10 deadliest airline disasters

Updated: 2014-03-14 08:05 By Sun Chengdong (chinadaily.com.cn)
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No.3 Charkhi Dadri collision Year:1996

Fatalities: 349 Survivors: 0

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 New Delhi to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 en route from Shymkent, Kazakhstan, to New Delhi. The crash killed all 349 people on board both planes, making it the world's deadliest mid-air collision, and the third-deadliest aircraft accident in the history of aviation, behind only the Tenerife airport disaster and Japan Airlines Flight 123.

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A group rescue workers standing on the crashed planes. [Photo/dfic.cn]

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