Today, 29 years ago, on November 12, 1996, two passenger jets collided over India. An Indian Red Cross officer identified the bodies on the scene on the evening of November 12, 1996, when two passenger jets collided over India, over the state of Chariah, northwest of the Indian capital, New Delhi, a Saudi Airways Boeing 747 passenger jet just taking off from New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport, and another Kazakhstan Airways Ilyushin-76 passenger jet that was about to land at the airport. All 349 passengers and crew were killed, with no survivors. This was the worst aircraft crash in world aviation history at the time.