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.