213 : On January 1 , 1978 , a Boeing 747-237B , Air India Flight 855 , crashed into the Arabian Sea just off the coast of Bombay , India , killing all 190 passengers and 23 crew on board . An investigation concluded that the captain became disoriented after the failure of one of the flight instruments in the cockpit , leading to " irrational control inputs " that caused the plane to crash
Air India Flight 855
Air India Flight 855
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