Air India Flight 855

1978 plane crash of an Air India Boeing 747 near Bombay, India
Event aviation_accident Q3098353
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Air India Flight 855

Summary

Air India Flight 855 is an aviation accident[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of aviation_accident entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (430 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Air India Flight 855 is in the country of India[3].
  • Air India Flight 855's image is recorded as VT-EBD Heathrow 27-2-1977.jpg[4].
  • Air India Flight 855's instance of is recorded as aviation accident[5].
  • Air India Flight 855's operator is recorded as Air India[6].
  • Air India Flight 855's location is recorded as Arabian Sea[7].
  • Air India Flight 855's Commons category is recorded as Air-India Flight 855[8].
  • Air India Flight 855's point in time is recorded as +1978-01-01T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Air India Flight 855's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 18.975, 'lon': 72.1592}[10].
  • Air India Flight 855's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02kk4n[11].
  • Air India Flight 855's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+213'}[12].
  • Air India Flight 855's number of injured is recorded as {'amount': '+0'}[13].
  • Air India Flight 855's start point is recorded as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport[14].
  • Air India Flight 855's destination point is recorded as Dubai International Airport[15].
  • Air India Flight 855's number of survivors is recorded as {'amount': '+0'}[16].
  • Air India Flight 855's Aviation Safety Network accident ID is recorded as 19780101-1[17].
  • Air India Flight 855's vessel is recorded as Boeing 747[18].

Why It Matters

Air India Flight 855 ranks in the top 9% of aviation_accident entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (430 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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