More than meets the Eye | The HORRIFIC story of The World’s WORST midair collision (Patreon)

November, 1996

Two planes carrying 349 people speed towards each other in the evening skies above Delhi. 

In one of those planes, five pilots sit at the controls, making preparations to land.   In the other, three pilots are climbing along their departure route.   

An air traffic controller sits at the top of a tower, watching two blips on his screen draw closer together.   

What do these things have in common?  

The people immediately in charge of the outcome, those sitting in the pointy ends of these structures, also sit at the pointy end of a vast and complex infrastructure which undergirds their actions.    

Aerospace technology, air law, aircraft design philosophy, and political and historical contingencies. All of these systems and infrastructures make up the foundations for the pyramid of aviation safety, on top of which pilots, and air traffic controllers sit.  What you’re about to see, is the shocking story of what happens when the foundations of this pyramid, are rotten.     

This is the story of the 1996 Charkhi Dadri Mid-air collision.