Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 information

Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701
	An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727, similar to the aircraft involved
Occurrence
Date	5 January 1969
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain in low visibility
Site	Fernhill Lane, Fernhill, near London Gatwick Airport, Horley, Surrey, England ; 51°09′17″N 0°08′32″W / 51.1548°N 0.1422°W
Total fatalities	50 (2 on ground)
Total injuries	15 (1 on ground)
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 727-013C
Operator	Ariana Afghan Airlines
Registration	YA-FAR
Flight origin	Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan
1st stopover	Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan
2nd stopover	Istanbul Atatürk Airport, Turkey
Last stopover	Frankfurt Airport, Germany
Destination	London Gatwick Airport, England
Passengers	54
Crew	8
Fatalities	48
Injuries	14
Survivors	14
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities	2
Ground injuries	1

Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 was the flight involved in a fatal air accident on 5 January 1969, when a Boeing 727 with 62 people on board^[1] crashed into a house on its approach to London Gatwick Airport in heavy fog. Due to pilot error the flaps were not extended to maintain flight at final approach speed.

At 0135^{[note 1]} on a Sunday morning on which the Gatwick area was affected by patches of dense freezing fog, Boeing 727 registration number YA-FAR (the only such aircraft in the company's fleet) descended below its correct glide slope as it approached the airport from the east. As it passed over the hamlet of Fernhill on the Surrey/Sussex border, it hit trees and roofs, began to roll and crashed into a field south of Fernhill Lane, 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) short of the runway. It collided with a large detached house, demolished it and caught fire.^[5]

Forty-eight passengers and crew died, and two adult occupants of the house were killed when it was destroyed by the impact. A baby in the house survived with minor injuries. The captain, first officer, flight engineer and eleven passengers also survived.

^ Kelly 1970, §1.14.
^ Kelly 1970, Introduction.
^ "Aircraft Accident, Gatwick". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 776. House of Commons. 20 January 1969. col. 440–444.
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[GAS-Fernhill-1.14-1] Kelly 1970, §1.14.

[GAS-Fernhill-Intro-2] Kelly 1970, Introduction.

[Hansard-20011969-FernhillCrash-3] "Aircraft Accident, Gatwick". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 776. House of Commons. 20 January 1969. col. 440–444.

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