Famous Indians who died in air crash

1. G.M.C. Balayogi - Politician

On March 3, 2002, Balayogi died in a crash of a Bell 206 helicopter in Kaikalur, Andhra Pradesh. He was aged 50 at that time. Possible mechanical failure and pilot error led to the crash.

2. Homi J. Bhabha, Nuclear Physicist

He died when Air India flight 101 crashed near Mont Blanc, France on 24 January 1966.

3. Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian politician and freedom fighter

Bose died on 18 August, 1945. In the consensus of scholarly opinion his death occured from third-degree burns on 18th August 1945 after his overloaded Japanese plane crashed in Japanese occuped Formosa (now Taiwan).

4. Sanjay Gandhi, politician

Sanjay Gandhi died instantly from head wounds in an air crash on 23 June 1980 near Safdarjung airport, New Delhi. He was flying a new aircraft near the Delhi Flying Club, and while performing an aerobatic manoeuvre, over his office, lost control and crashed. The only passenger in the plane, Captain Subhash Saxena, was also killed in the crash.

5. Jayan, Malayalam film actor

Krishnan Nair, known by his stage name Jayan, was killed in an accident on the set of the movie Kolilakkam on 16 November 1980. The movie was being filmed in Sholavaram, Chennai, near Tamil Nadu. He was performing a dangerous stunt that involved him boarding an airborne helicopter from a moving motorbike. During the re-take the helicopter lost its balance, and crashed along with Jayan who was hanging onto the landing skids, and later succumbed to his injuries.

6. Dorjee Khandu, Chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh

One of the greatest tragedies of Assam, that 2011 recorded. The state CM was killed in a helicopter crash. After four days of massive search, the wreckage of the chopper along with five bodies was was found at Lobothang.

7. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh

The great political leader died a very tragic death on Sepember 2, 2009. His private helicopter, Bell 430, could not be traced when he entered the Nallamala forest area of Andhra Pradesh. The helicopter and dead bodies were found on the next morning. Five people including YSR were charred to death beyond recognition in the helicopter crash.

8. Madhavrao Scindia, politician

He was killed in a Cessna C-90 plane crash on the outskirts of Manipuri district of Uttar Pradesh on 30 September 2001. Al eight on board died in a tragic crash.

9. Soundarya, Kannada film actress

Soundarya died on April 17, 2004, in an aircraft crash near Bangalore, when the plane caught fire immediately after take-off. The plane, a Cessna 180, chartered by Agni Aviation, left Jakkur Airfield at 11:05 AM. Shortly after take-off the plane turned left, plunged and crashed in an open field about 500 m from the airport. Her brother, Amarnath, a producer of Kannada films, also died in the accident.

10. Taruni Sachdev, actress

Actress Taruni Sachdev died on the day of her 14th birthday in the Agni Air Flight CHT plane crash, in Nepal on 14th May 2012. Taruni's mother, Geetha Sachdev who was with her on the flight also died.


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Scary Airports...!!

1. Maketane Air Strip, Africa

Maketane Air Strip is an airport in Lesotho, Africa, that extends to the edge of a cliff.
This airport is labelled as one of the world's scariest runways.









2. Madeira Airport, Portugal

Almost half of the runway consists of an extension supported by more than 150 concrete pillars. The runway was extended in 1980s after 131 people were killed when a Boeing plunged off the end of the runway.
The airport's shorter length, proximity to cliffs, extreme turbulence and poor weather conditions, makes it one of the world's most dangerous airports.









3. Tenzing-Hillary, Nepal

If a pilot misjudges landing or take off , they face a fall off a cliff edge. Also, it;s only a tenth of a standard length of a runway. There are no radar or navigation facilities available at the airport.











4. Saba Island Airport, Carribean

The runway is only 400m in length and is the shortest commercial airstrip in the world. One side of the strip has high hills while all the others drop into the sea.












5. Qamdo Bamda Airport, Tibet, China

The runway is more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level and 5,500 m in length.
At higher altitudes longer runways are needed because aircraft will require a much higher take-off and landing speed to compensate for reduced performance.







6. Barra Airport, Scotland

The airport is the only one in the world where the scheduled flights use the beach as this tiny runway disappears underwater during high tide.











7. Gibraltar International Airport, Europe

The runway is less than 2000m and is intersected by a main road. The traffic has to be halted every time a plane takes off or lands.













8. Paro Airport, Bhutan

The Himalayan airport is so dangerous that only eight pilots are qualified to land there. 18,000 foot mountains surrounding this airport and an unusually short runway makes take offs and landings very scary.










9. Princess Juliana International airport

Due to the limited length of the runway, only 2,300 metres, planes fly very low to touch down on the tiny runway. A sign at the end of the runway warns tourists that the blast from the jet's engines runway could knock them off their feet.

10. Courchevel Airport, France

This runway is extremely short with a gradient of 18.6%. There is no go-around procedures for landings, due to surrounding mountainous terrain. The airfield appeared in James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies.