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The Night Two Planes Vanished: Charkhi Dadri's Fatal Misread Altitude
The Night Two Planes Vanished: Charkhi Dadri's Fatal Misread Altitude
A single misread number and a radio operator without instruments turned a routine airway into the deadliest mid-air collision in history, killing all 349 people aboard both aircraft - how did two crews occupying the same sky at the same time fail to see each other? What one miscommunication changed every minute of the final six minutes above Haryana?
In this episode, we tell what happened on the evening of 12 November 1996, describing the flights, crews, and the airway system that depended entirely on pilots’ reports; we…
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