Depositions were taken from the Air Traffic Controllers Guild and the two airlines. The crash was investigated by the Lahoti Commission, headed by then-Delhi High Court judge Ramesh Chandra Lahoti. Thirteen Kazakhstani traders boarded the flight. Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 Ī company from Kazakhstan chartered the flight, and the passenger manifest mostly included ethnic Russian Kazakhstani citizens planning to go shopping in India. Twelve of the crew members, including five anti-terrorism officials, were Saudi citizens. Īccording to a 13 November 1996 New York Times article, the passenger manifest included 17 people of other nationalities, including nine Nepalis, three Pakistanis, two Americans, one Bangladeshi, one Briton, and one Saudi. The article also stated that 40 Nepalis and 3 Americans boarded the Saudi flight. Many of the Indians worked or planned to work in blue collar jobs as house maids, drivers, and cooks. Passengers and crews Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 Īn article in The New York Times on 14 November stated that 215 Indians who boarded the flight worked in Saudi Arabia. The Kazakhstani aircraft wreckage hit Rohtak District, Haryana, near Birohar. The wreckage of the Saudia aircraft impacted in Bhiwani District, Haryana, near Dhani. He was making an initial approach in a Lockheed C-141B Starlifter when he saw "the cloud suddenly flash into bright red". Place, a pilot for the United States Air Force, was the sole eyewitness to the event. In the end, all 312 people on board Flight SVA 763 and all 37 people on Flight KZA 1907 perished.Ĭapt. Rescuers discovered four critically injured passengers from the IL-76 but all died soon afterward. The fuselage of Flight KZA 1907 remained structurally intact as it went in a steady but rapid and uncontrolled descent until it crashed in a field. The aircraft disintegrated under the stress before the wreckage hit the ground at almost 1135 kilometres per hour. Flight SVA 763 had lost its horizontal stabilizer in its left wing and as a result, went into spiral motion towards the ground with fire trailing from the wing. The tail of KZA 1907 sliced through the left wing of SVA 763. He warned of the other flight's distance, but it was too late-the two aircraft had collided. When the controller called Flight KZA 1907 again, he received no reply. At this time, Dutta advised the flight, "Identified traffic 12 o'clock, reciprocal Saudia Boeing 747, 10 miles (16 km). About eight minutes later, around 6:40 PM, Flight KZA 1907 reported having reached its assigned altitude of 15,000 feet (4,600 m) but it was actually lower, at 14,500 feet (4,400 m), and still descending. įlight KZA 1907 was cleared to descend to 15,000 feet (4,600 m) when 74 miles (119 km) from the airport while Flight SVA 763, travelling on the same airway as Flight KZA 1907 but in the opposite direction, was cleared to climb to 14,000 feet (4,300 m). On Flight KZA 1907, Gennadi Cherepanov served as the pilot and Igor Repp served as the radio operator. The crew of flight 763 consisted of Captain Khalid Al Shubaily, First Officer Nazir Khan, and Flight Engineer Evris Arabia. Both flights were controlled by approach controller VK Dutta.
Flight KZA 1907 was, at the same time, descending to land at Delhi. "We have the resolve and determination to do just that.Flight SVA 763 departed Delhi at 6:32 PM local time. The Grand Prix is due to return on April 10 next year as the third race on the calendar behind Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. "I don't think it has any legs, but I also don't doubt that there is activity there," he told AFP of Sydney sniffing around.īut he also warned against complacency, with the city missing out in 2021 due to strict quarantine and entry regulations imposed by the Victorian state government as Covid-19 raged. New South Wales, of which Sydney is the capital, has a new premier who has made clear he is keen to attract big events, recently earmarking a major cash splash to put the state "in pole position" to do so.
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