United Arab Airlines Flight 869 (1962)

United Arab Airlines Flight 869

An aircraft similar as the crashed one
Accident summary
Date July 19, 1962
Type CFIT
Site Khao Yai mountain Thailand
Passengers 18
Crew 8
Injuries 0
Fatalities 26
Aircraft type de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C
Operator United Arab Airlines
Tail number SU-AMW
Flight origin Hong Kong (HKG)
Stopover Bangkok (BKK)
Destination Cairo (CAI)

United Arab Airlines Flight 869 was an international scheduled passenger de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C flight from Hong Kong via Bangkok to Cairo. On July 19, 1962 at 13:30 UTC the plane departed from Hong Kong for the first leg of the flight with 18 passengers on board and 8 crew. The flight was uneventful until commencing approach to Bangkok, when the plane crashed in the Khao Yai mountain 96 km NE of Bangkok at 15:44 UTC. There were no survivors.

The investigation found as a probable cause a sequence of mistakes in the navigation by the pilot-in-command, "resulted in grave errors of time and distance in his computations".

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