Plane Crashes That Changed the Skies Forever

Leaving Bombay on a night flight, a Boeing 747’s captain became disoriented after an instrument failure. Believing the plane was climbing, he mistakenly kept adjusting controls. In reality, the aircraft was banking sharply. Within minutes, it spiraled into the Arabian Sea, killing all 213 people onboard.

The crash highlighted the deadly danger of spatial disorientation and overreliance on a single cockpit instrument. It became a case study in training pilots to recognize and recover from such situations. For India, Flight 855 remains one of the nation’s most significant and tragic air disasters.