United Arab Airlines Flight 869 (1962)

United Arab Airlines Flight 869 was an international scheduled passenger flight operated by a de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C 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 and 8 crew aboard. 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.

United Arab Airlines Flight 869
A de Havilland Comet of United Arab Airlines, similar to the crashed aircraft
Accident
DateJuly 19, 1962
SummaryCFIT
SiteKhao Yai mountain Thailand
Aircraft
Aircraft typede Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C
OperatorUnited Arab Airlines
RegistrationSU-AMW
Flight originHong Kong (HKG)
StopoverBangkok (BKK)
DestinationCairo (CAI)
Passengers18
Crew8
Fatalities26
Survivors0

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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