United Arab Airlines Flight 869 (1962)
A de Havilland Comet of United Arab Airlines, similar to the aircraft involved | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 19 July 1962 |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain |
| Site | Khao Yai mountain Nakhon Nayok province, Thailand |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C |
| Operator | United Arab Airlines |
| Registration | SU-AMW |
| Flight origin | Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, China |
| Stopover | Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Destination | Cairo International Airport, Cairo, Egypt |
| Occupants | 26 |
| Passengers | 18 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Fatalities | 26 |
| Survivors | 0 |
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 19 July 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 range 96 km NE of Bangkok at 15:44 UTC. There were no survivors.
The investigation found a sequence of mistakes in the navigation by the pilot-in-command as a probable cause, which "resulted in grave errors of time and distance in his computations".