5. Saudia Flight 763
In the skies over India on November 12, 1996, two jumbo jets; Saudia Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907; crashed into a deadly mid-air crash, killing all 349 souls aboard. A fatal miscommunication and outdated safety systems turned routine flights into the deadliest airborne disaster ever recorded.
This heart-wrenching tragedy changed aviation forever, reminding the world of the fragile thread that holds life in flight.