November 1996 was a particularly deadly month with 744 dying in 26 air accidents. The most serious crash was in India on November 12, when a Saudi Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin-76 collided shortly after take-off at New Delhi, killing 349 people. On November 23, during the hijacking of a Boeing 767 from Ethiopian Airlines, the plane crashed into the sea when it ran out of fuel, killing 125 of the 175 people on board. __