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.
 A de Havilland Comet of United Arab Airlines, similar to the crashed aircraft | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | July 19, 1962 |
| Summary | CFIT |
| Site | Khao Yai mountain Thailand |
| Aircraft | |
| 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) |
| Passengers | 18 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Fatalities | 26 |
| Survivors | 0 |
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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