United Arab Airlines Flight 869 (1962)

United Arab Airlines Flight 869
Accident summary
A de Havilland Comet of United Arab Airlines, similar to the crashed aircraft
Date	July 19, 1962
Summary	CFIT
Site	Khao Yai mountain Thailand
Passengers	18
Crew	8
Fatalities	26
Survivors	0
Aircraft type	de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C
Operator	United Arab Airlines
Registration	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".

Sources

Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network

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