Passengers 18 Fatalities 26 Date 19 July 1962 Operator EgyptAir | Crew 8 Survivors 0 Number of deaths 26 Survivor 0 | |
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Site Khao Yai mountain Thailand Aircraft type de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C Summary Controlled flight into terrain Destination Cairo International Airport (CAI) Similar Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flig, Eastern Air Lines Flight 512, Caledonian Airways Flight 153, Alitalia Flight 771, United Airlines Flight 297 | ||
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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