More than 100 people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from Ahmedabad on Thursday, authorities said, one of the country’s worst aviation disasters. Following are details of some other airline accidents in India in recent years:
AUGUST 2020 Twenty-one people died when an Air India Express Boeing 737 plane skidded off the runway in Kozhikode during heavy rain, plunged into a valley and crashed nose-first into the ground.
MAY 2010 An Air India Boeing 737 flight from Dubai overshot the runway at the airport in Mangaluru and crashed into a gorge, killing 158 people on board.
JULY 2000 More than 50 people were killed when a state-owned Alliance Air flight between and New crashed in a residential area of the eastern city of Patna.
NOVEMBER 1996 Some 350 passengers were killed when a Saudi Arabian Airlines plane and a Kazakhstan Airlines plane collided head-on mid-air over the town of Charkhi Dadri in the northern Haryana state.
APRIL 1993 An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed during takeoff in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad) and killed 55 people on board.
AUGUST 1991 An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 flight from Kolkata crashed during descent near Imphal, the capital Manipur, killing all 69 occupants onboard.
OCTOBER 1988 More than 130 passengers died when an Indian Airlines Boeing 737, flying from to , crashed as it was coming in to land.
JANUARY 1978 All 213 passengers of an Air India flight were killed when the captain lost control of the plane after take-off and it plunged into the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai.
