The incident took place at Charkhi Dadri, around 100 kilometres from the national capital New Delhi when the Boeing 747 en route to Dhahran and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 en route from Chimkent, Kazakhstan collided in the air.

After an Air India aircraft bound to London crashed outside the perimeter of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a statement expressed grief over the tragedy, calling it “heartbreaking beyond words”.