Homi Jehangir Bhabha — India’s foremost nuclear scientist died when an Air India flight from Bombay to New York crashed into Mont Blanc in the Alps on 24 January 1966
Mohan Kumaramangalam — the Congress leader and minister died when an Indian Airlines flight crashed in Delhi on May 31, 1973
Sanjay Gandhi — the Congress leader, a pilot himself, died in an air crash in June 1980 in Delhi
Surendra Nath — the then Punjab governor was travelling to Himachal Pradesh's Kullu from Chandigarh in a 14-seater Beechcraft plane when it crashed on July 9, 1994
Madhavrao Scindia — the senior Congressman was flying to Kanpur when his chartered flight crashed in a UP village in September 2001
GMC Balayogi — the TDP leader died in a chopper crash in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh on 3 March 2002
Soundarya — the actor-politician (BJP) died in a helicopter crash on 17 April, 2004, when she was travelling to Karimnagar from Bangalore during an election campaign
OP Jindal — the noted industrialist and then Haryana power minister was killed in a chopper crash in March 2005 when he was flying back to Chandigarh from Delhi
YS Rajasekhara Reddy — the then Andhra Pradesh CM died when a twin-engined Bell 430 helicopter carrying him crashed in Nallamala Hills in September 2009
Dorjee Khandu — the former Arunachal Pradesh CM Dorjee Khandu died in a helicopter crash near Tawang on April 30 2011
Gen Bipin Rawat — India's first Chief of Defence Staff died when an IAF Mi-17V5 helicopter carrying him and 13 others, including his wife, crashed in the Nilgiri hills in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor on December 8, 2021