United Arab Airlines Flight 869 (1962)
| United Arab Airlines Flight 869 | |
|---|---|
 An identical De Havilland DH.106 Comet operated by United Arab Airlines at Le Bourget Airport in Paris |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Controlled flight into terrain |
| place | Khao Yai Mountain, Thailand |
| date | July 19, 1962 |
| Fatalities | 26th |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | de Havilland DH.106 Comet 4C |
| operator | United Arab Airlines |
| Mark | SU-AMW |
| Departure airport |
.svg){kind=small} Hong Kong
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| Destination airport |
 Bangkok (not reached)
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| Passengers | 18th |
| crew | 8th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
United Arab Airlines flight 869 was an international scheduled flight of the Egyptian airline United Arab Airlines from Tokyo via Hong Kong , Bangkok , Bombay and Kuwait to Cairo , on which a De Havilland Comet 4 crashed on Khao Yai Mountain in Thailand on July 19, 1962 . All 18 passengers and 8 crew members died in the accident.
Flight history
(All times in UTC )
Comet from Japan took off at 1:30 p.m. from Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong for its onward flight to Cairo. The next stopover was planned for Don Mueang Airport in Bangkok. After takeoff, the aircraft rose to the intended altitude of 9,500 meters (31,000 feet). At 15:14, the crew of said air traffic in Bangkok, it was flown at 15:08 in the information area and at 15:13 the non-directional beacon (NDB) in Ubon 've flown over. This radio beacon is located around 480 kilometers from the destination airport.
The pilots stated that the ETA for the rotary radio beacon (VOR) Bangkok was 3:47 pm. At 3:30 p.m., the crew asked for permission to descend, giving the remaining distance to the destination airport just under 170 kilometers (90 NM ). The air traffic controller then gave clearance to descend to 1,200 meters (4,000 feet). In fact, at this point in time, instead of 170 kilometers (90 NM), the aircraft was still around 250 kilometers (137 NM) from the airport, which meant that the descent was initiated far too early. Another instruction followed at 3:35 p.m. to descend to 900 meters (3,000 feet). At this point the machine had not yet flown over Khao Yai Mountain.
The flight was handed over to approach control at Bangkok Airport at 3:40 p.m. The crew immediately stated that they were descending from an altitude of 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) and that the rotary radio beacon would be in Bangkok in four minutes. Approach control instructed the pilots to set their altimeters to 1007.8 mbar, gave them clearance to fly over the Bangkok radio beacon for the final approach on runway 21L and to report a sink from 900 meters (3,000 feet) immediately. Receipt of this instruction has been confirmed. This was the last radio contact. At 3:44 p.m., the aircraft collided while descending with Khao Yai Mountain, which is about 96 kilometers (52 NM) northeast of the destination airport.
plane
The aircraft involved in the accident was a De Havilland DH.106 Comet 4C. It was only delivered to the airline a few months before the accident. The aircraft with the registration number SU-AMW had the serial number 6464.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest No.14 Volume II (page 107ff)
- ^ Accident report Comet 4C SU-AMW , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 21, 2017.