The 1996 Charkhi Dadri Mid-Air Collision - Mayday: Air Disaster

[@jankijan8004]

Can't imagine when a simple dot disappears from the radar screen, what goes across an ATC's mind! Must be horrific realizing that simple dot carries hundreds of souls.

[@Tara0501]

i can never get tired of watching the episodes on the channel

[@Hellsong89]

Way too dramatized. There are far better channels that go trough everything from pilots point of view and goes trough practices well as how the aircraft systems operate at the time etc.

[@Tara0501]

@hellsong89 off topic, but do you play airsoft? cause i saw video's of it on your channel

[@alliepachecoflores2808]

People are so weird about what they decide to complain about. I love watching these videos and not seen this one before. The reupload maybe helps new people see this episode, like it did for me.

[@fionamackie3357]

Hearing you. My first time seeing this one, too. How difficult is it to move on if you've seen it before and let the rest of us enjoy it?

[@6-6-6..]

@@fionamackie3357 yes it is for me too i had stopped watching this channel for some years and missed the original

[@reneebrichta2937]

I haven’t seen this before to!

[@kycone]

Narcissists think the entire world revolves around them only

[@eugenemuunda7985]

Me too

[@clarryclarry1112]

I love this channel; thanks for posting these investigations. 👍

[@talukdartalukdar3643]

Yes Yes Yes, I can still remember that terrible fatal incident took place in India when I was in 5th grade in school... from India 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@aidentyabiv]

@@talukdartalukdar3643 What

[@jbaker7311]

My brother was an ATC at DFW and worked there until he retired. He said they had to keep planes 5 miles apart. They can stack them but if they stray within that 5 miles, alarms go off and they remove the ATC that was directing the flights and then completely retrain them. Close calls can be devastating in high pressure job such as this.

[@CosmicRPG]

The 3 most tragic accident with most amount of people killed in all this years was 1) Panam&KLM, 583 lost 2) JAL 123, 520 lost 3) Kazakistan Airlines& Saud Arabia Airlines, 349 Lost.

[@AlvisWuMidNights]

Yep :(

[@LadyVoldemort]

Number #2 JAL 1985 always made me cry the hardest in May Day series because the actors played their characters well, and it was the worst single aircraft accident ever. The pilots and victims were "tormented" in the air for half an hour, IIRC... (But most episodes made me cry anyway, I'm too much of a snowflake when I watch these videos alone)

[@6-6-6..]

my father remenbers all

[@davidnavarro4821]

What’s ironic is that the first two had respectively +60 and 4 or 5 survivors while the midair collision in India had zero!

[@Jan6thsurvivor]

Jan 6th massacre at the U.S. Capitol 791 million dead

[@yesil1026]

Even though you know what you are doing, that initial feeling "Did I do something wrong?" from the VK Dutta side must be bone chilling.

[@Bu5es]

Top 5 deadliest passenger to passenger mid air collisions: 1. Charkhi Dadri Mid-Air Collision Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 (Ilyushin Il-76TD) and Saudia Flight 763 (Boeing 747-168B) 12 November 1996, India, 349 Dead 2. Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision Aeroflot Flight 7628 (Tupolev Tu-134A) and Aeroflot Flight 7880 (Tupolev Tu-134AK) 11 August 1979, Ukraine, 178 Dead 3. Zagreb mid-air collision British Airways Flight 476 (Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B) and Inex-Adria Flight 550 (McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32) 10 September 1976, Croatia, 176 Dead 4. New York Mid Air Collision United Airlines Flight 826 (Douglas DC-8) and Trans World Airlines Flight 266 (Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation) 16 December 1960, United States, 134 Dead 5.Grand Canyon Mid Air Collision United Airlines Flight 718 (Douglas DC-7 Mainliner) and Trans World Airlines Flight 2(Lockheed L-1049A Super Constellation) 30 June 1956, United States, 128 Dead Findings: Trans World Airlines claims two planes for the top 5 spots The Lockheed L-1049A Super Constellation claims two planes for the top 5 spots

[@davidnavarro4821]

The Grand Canyon mid-air collision was at the time the 2nd deadliest aviation incident and the New York collision ended up becoming the deadliest

[@michaelcoulson2686]

Thanks for showing this accident, i had not seen this one before. 😊

[@MaydayAirDisaster]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@michellezimmermann9160]

As well as all the pilots, cockpit crews,and air craft maintenance crews,I would also like to say a massive thank you to all air traffic Controlers around the world that work so so hard to get millions of people safely to their destinations day in, day out ❤

[@Wxlkyy]

whys the music so loud

[@mozartpiano23]

Dramatic effect 😅

[@swansong007]

@@mozartpiano23 I’m guessing you are about 10 years old ?

[@NathanApostropheL]

@@swansong007 Did you mean that for OP? (You have a cool user pic btw. Did you design characters??)

[@FryingTiger]

WHAT?!

[@eeveestar6826]

@@swansong007 What does age have to do with bad sound mixing?

[@thegreat0220]

The 747 co-pilot was the lead hijacker on Air France 8969. Im glad he changed his life around and discovered a love of flying

[@RiverHaus2001]

Air France 447 was not a hijacking, but an ocean crash flight from South America to France

[@juanitosuriel6931]

You must be Russian too, just like the two useless Russian pilots. Air France 447 was never highjacked, it crashed in the middle of the ocean!

[@NickelPlate_Triple7]

I think you might be thinking of another AF incident

[@Soffity]

He also plays the lead hijacker in American Airlines flight 11. The plane that hit the first tower on 11th sept 2001. He does a great job in them all. Apparently he is a very nice man in real life,

[@Fairysnuff]

😂😂

[@TheAviationFan727]

How many re-uploads do you guys do? Them: yes.

[@liezelbandalan8397]

your videos are amazing 😮

[@MaydayAirDisaster]

Thanks for watching! 🙏

[@rezaramx07]

What about the part where if the Kazakh flight had not throttled up, they would have cleared the Saudi flight by few feet. Why was this part left out?

[@danijulian1844]

Can we all appreciate the English translation for the people that speak the native language of India

[@eliscanfield3913]

India has several native languages, like Kashmiri, Tamil, Bengali, & Hindi.

[@henrymcmiller2527]

Sad state, great video

[@ShadowCatGold2006]

I really want to watch this one because I haven't seen it before. But that music is so loud and overpowering that you can't hear the people speaking. I've tried to adjust volume in a few different ways, but the bottom line is that the audio on this episode is horrible. To whoever uploaded it, maybe find a copy with better audio where the music is lower.

[@kycone]

It’s fine for me. Must be due to what you’re using to watch.

[@shivanimalik6739]

My father can back from work that day and i remember he told that some bad accident, crash happened..

[@gilextreme]

I've watched it 5x times 9yrs ago and then it was re uploaded 3days ago.. omg

[@Hendramail2000]

Good post

[@Astrotheavgeek]

Rip to everyone who died

[@AlvisWuMidNights]

Yeah :(

[@COYOTE_N8]

Please people. Shut up about re uploads, maybe not everyone has seen it. Know one is making you watch it.

[@Jackson-q2p8w]

!!!!! 🤣🤣🫵

[@catface3473]

😊

[@yomommaahotoo264]

Most amazing is that zero call centers on the ground were hit with any debris.

[@michaelselz3389]

Wrong. They weren’t hit with any debris.

[@JNDlego57]

@@michaelselz3389That’s already what he said Lol

[@dustinmiller6844]

Rip all people

[@AlvisWuMidNights]

Yeah :(

[@ClipMaster-e6t]

Yep😢

[@Jackson-q2p8w]

!!!!! 🤣🤣

[@apocyldoomer]

I don’t know why they are called “black boxes”, since they are actually orange, obviously, so they can me more easily be found.

[@GayBirdHere]

They used to be black

[@aaronthe747fan]

​@GayBirdHere it's due to the fire that the boxes can be exposed which make them black

[@simply-tom]

You would think with the sky being so vast, planes could easily avoid each other. How can their flight path be so exact? It’s not like there are roads up there. On a freeway, yeah I can see a collision. But in the air?

[@ChadSimplicio]

Instruments at the time of the crash were not as sophisticated as they are today. In this case, India ATC didn't have the tech that would've allowed VK Dutta to alert the Kazakhstan flight that they were too low. TCAS was also not implemented at that time too.

[@denawiltsie4412]

To prevent crashes, there are clearly defined paths in the sky. They are marked by way points and GPS. If somebody wanders into another path, an accident becomes highly likely. If everybody stays were they are supposed to, crashes are avoidable. If you look at the grand canyon crash, that was a case of aircraft not flying an accurate path. Over the years, they improved traffic control making flying much more accurate. There are still some areas at lower altitudes where you don't have traffic control but commercial and military are very controlled. There are over 5,000 aircraft over the US at any given time but they concentrate near cities and airports. That elevates the risk of a collision. I was actually on a flight where I looked out and saw another aircraft pass below us. I am sure the pilots see that much more often.

[@ressljs]

There sort of are roads in the sky. They're called airways and these jets were on the same airway going opposite directions. That's actually common, but obviously, they are supposed to be at different altitudes. Another thing to keep in mind is there are thousands of planes flying around, and midair collisions are exceedingly rare. When they do happen, it's usually in cases like this where the planes are coming in for a landing or just took off because no matter how big the sky is, you'll get a concentration of air planes right around the airports.

[@catface3473]

Newton's law.😮

[@angrytailsandjosedanieldia6238]

Saudi Airlines Flight 763 was a passenger jet heading to Dharian Saudi Arabia with 312 people. Kazkahstan Airlines Flight 1907 was also a passenger jet with 27 passengers most of whom were traders and 10 crew heading to New Dehli. This accident was caused by the Kazakh crew

[@Christian-fy1qz]

I guess there’s only so many air disasters

[@cassandrakarpinski9416]

Actually, there are only so many episodes of this show.

[@deanneparis8888]

I almost joined the Air Force back in the 80s, they wanted me to train in this particular field. I was at the point of signing when my then boyfriend talked me out of it. I watch these things now and thank the Lord that he did! Even if there was no fault in your behavior, how do you recover from something like this?

[@drle0marvin254]

Fix the audio levels. PLEASE!!!

[@Eyob797]

I recall this deadly accident, it was all over the media in November 1996. May the Most High bless the poor souls who perished. Holding the Saudi aircraft at FL140 for a long time caused the disaster.

[@d.g.1594]

This mid air collision in India is as deadly as the one over Germany.

[@Sahilprakash1999]

On November 12th, 1996, a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin IL-76TD collided and crashed into the field in Charkhi Dadri 349 people onboard both planes are dead

[@Sahilprakash1999]

11:33 Captain Timothy J. Place: Delhi, this is 1-8-1-5 VK Dutta: 1-8-1-5 what did you see Captain Timothy J. Place: two distinct fires on the ground VK Dutta: two fires on the ground confirmed Captain Timothy J. Place: confirmed confirmed VK Dutta: roger

[@muyazit]

Music toooo loud

[@alishakalra819]

It is in hariyana ??

[@Heathcoatman]

They can try to claim things about radar or TCAS, but the reason this crash happened is because a country rife with corruption cleared pilots in language skills without those skills being sufficient.

[@Wushutigercranekungfudragon]

15:52 can't fake that trauma

[@f.k.b.16]

Agreed 😢

[@Tadesan]

If those planes had had horns this wouldn’t have happened.

[@catface3473]

If they had a spotter on the hood..or had installed a SPOTSY stratosphere view finder as used on old cars with low windshields to help see traffic lights..😊

[@davidharris2519]

it was a cargo jet and a passenger jet

[@aviationdreammotivation8508]

I didn't understand, how the investigators work and going around the werkedge and the fire has not been shut down yet??

[@MaryMonet]

Unwatchable. Music too loud, can barely hear the narrator.

[@MonopolisticInvestor]

Do the Smolensk air disaster

[@cassandrakarpinski9416]

They only upload episodes of the tv show mayday (aka air crash investigation). If they haven't covered it on the show, it won't be here. If you want to request certain crashes, i would highly recommend mentour pilot, disaster breakdown, mini aircrash investigation, and greendot aviation (also recommend them anyway if you are into this sort of content. Mentour is hosted by an airline captain and covers from the pov of a flight crew member, disaster breakdown deep dives into all the background on a very technical level, mini aircrash does shorter videos covering the basics of different accidents with computer simulations of the flight, and greendot is more psychology/human factors based)

[@BucksSuperStereoWorld]

My cat would watch this and say, and I quote, "bergow"...

[@davidharris2519]

the IL 76 is not a passenger a/c its a cargo plane

[@thescfiles1273]

Converted to passenger service

[@davidharris2519]

wasnt TCAS around back then

[@ariey7971]

both planes wasn't equipped with TCAS?? seriously?? not even the Saudi Arabia 747? i thought TCAS was mandatory for all modern aircraft during the 80's

[@shivanimalik6739]

Because of corruption and laziness

[@davidharris2519]

they dont interview the air traffic controller in the open they do it in a room like a office

[@cassandrakarpinski9416]

Probably a film making technique to highlight that the interview is with an air traffic controller

[@Khoroshiystan]

✈️

[@JayYe-q9r]

I seen this video

[@SirPresidentRoYaL]

Why do yall keep reposting the same stories?

[@alliepachecoflores2808]

Because some of us haven’t seen it? Reposting it means maybe more people can see it, for the first time. What’s the big problem?

[@SirPresidentRoYaL]

@alliepachecoflores2808 It's no big problem

[@colinmartin9797]

​@@alliepachecoflores2808 because it already was on KZbin and you are a grownup who can search the channel for something they already have, instead of expecting content to be spoon fed to you in the KZbin feed. Also these are "remasters" of the original episodes in wider 16:9 format and higher resolution which is technically a super valid reason to reupload, but if you look at the original episode, you'll realize this is completely unwatchable with how they ruined the audio mixing.

[@alliepachecoflores2808]

@@colinmartin9797how can I search something I don’t know about?? This channel posts videos, once, twice, 5000 times for all of us to see. There are new visitors to the channel every day. Again, sorry you had issues, I had no issues with the audio. Idk what to say there.

[@Librarymusic-x4l]

41:00

[@abhinavraj7722]

Re-upload

[@deparagigm]

A land 33million god, none intervened

[@desdicadoric]

The music is ridiculously loud

[@leecooke5527]

They are reposting these with worse quality than the originals!! There is another copy of this same episode on KZbin with clearer sound and quieter music. I wish they'd get their act together!

[@1x1x1x1guideFisch]

Uhhh I think I already watch this you put old video back in 2025??!?!

[@Snezhnayavia]

early! Also rip to those people ;(

[@AlvisWuMidNights]

Yeah :(

[@insiyanagaria]

Hi I think you have posted this before as well

[@googaagoogaa12345678]

The kazak pilots headsets look like the headphones i used in elementary school minus the mic.

[@NickChigozie]

Was kazakstan airlinea a good airline

[@swansong007]

Who ever edited this video needs their hearing checked. Its WAY TO LOAD. I’m off I need to protect my ears

[@LadyVoldemort]

*loud

[@alliepachecoflores2808]

I had no issues with the volume of the video?

[@Jackson-q2p8w]

I think you need to learn to spell words properly 🤣🫵

[@lookylook570]

Do you not have a volume control?

[@tombellows4167]

Why complain about it? Just turn your volume down! Have you ever heard of that?😂

[@Paul-H-Wolfram6608]

The background loud music is irritating, cut off that damn music.

[@furkan66]

Post New episodes please!

[@Peacout75]

Just upload something new 😭🙏

[@YouKnowImRight2]

"English language skills in the Kazakh cockpit resulting in inadequate interpretation of directions provided by air traffic control" - Even a person ith ood English skills will struggle understanding a scamming accent errr.....Indian accent.

[@christyquillman5470]

check.

[@unkokrispy]

For real, the thumbnails yall are making are cheesy AF. Makes me not want to watch the videos.

[@Uhohohno319]

Isn’t this a re-run?

[@giuliabuccolo9918]

Japan❤

[@richarde6911]

Unwatchable bad audio mix

[@karenelizabeth1590]

So much stuff is like this, even on streaming. Have to watch TV with subs all the time, and not because we're deaf.

[@cartwheel8319]

I stopped watching after hearing the name India. Enough said.

[@Rando_Shyte]

REUPLOAD AGAIN

[@NothingMaster]

This needs subtitles when the Indians talk.

[@anoynomouse4584]

@@NothingMaster nah ur just deaf

[@user-ew1ig4nm6x]

This been uploaded already

[@mk4355]

The story accuses the Kazakh pilots who will never be able to defend themselves. That ATC, I could not make up 90% of what he said without subtitles. Go figure.

[@colinmartin9797]

Whoever is doing these lazy "remasters" of old videos needs to be fired. And whoever is supposed to be watching them before uploading needs to be fired. Because this is now a pattern of making these old episodes unwatchable with completely ruined audio mixing. And whoever is making the thumbnails. Fire them. This Ai slop is unbelievably disrespectful to the people who died in these accidents. And for everyone else... Come on. Raise your standards. Stop being okay with awful, lazy work. Be better. Your lack of standards about lazy corporate crap is why everything is getting worse in the world. Come on.

[@Bonzeye182]

✈🔥👳🏽‍♂

[@FryingTiger]

You know those were some stinky flights.

[@yomommaahotoo264]

What happens when pilots are too busy redeeming stolen gift cards to fly a plane.

[@RiverHaus2001]

Wrong country

[@goldleafllc]

Ngl that indian bgm is hella racist

[@skammer2007]

does it smell of "BO"?????????????????????????????????????????

[@technophobe7067]

Why do they keep uploading old videos as new? Utter crap.

[@pgbrown12084]

Probably because people keep watching them? I'm not an expert in human behavior, but personally if I don't want to see something I just don't watch it, new or old. Fortunately for me...I like these videos despite their age.

[@ClipMaster-e6t]

Bro,for new airplane videos New crashes have to come and be investigated.Hence that’s why they upload the same thing and make you busy.Cya

[@colinmartin9797]

​@@ClipMaster-e6t do you really lack the critical thinking to not think about how there have been thousands of accidents that are interesting and have been investigated in the past 60 years that aren't episodes. Because there are thousands of them.

[@revill8474]

I'm the words of Arnold. STOP WHINING 😂

[@ClipMaster-e6t]

@@technophobe7067 bro

[@JayYe-q9r]

:)

[@IceManCodm]

There's no new airline crashes lately coz of technology so nothing for them to make episodes of

[@FryingTiger]

South Korea? Like two weeks ago. WTF 😂

[@rdallas81]

There are 2000 a year according to the NTSB

[@6-6-6..]

@@rdallas81 most are small cessnas

[@andrewzheng1403]

@@FryingTigerUr right, because the NTSB and other government agencies can investigate and report on an accident in a few weeks

[@andrewzheng1403]

@@rdallas812000+ Incidents, but the majority of them are minor minor incidents, like protocols broken or cabin filtration is broken or stuff like that. Not enough to make a full length documentary about them

[@ARROWS00]

Stop reposting old episodes