A Sterling Airways Caravelle 10B3 similar to the accident aircraft
Occurrence
Date
14 March 1972
Summary
Controlled flight into terrain, pilot error
Site
Al Hail, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle 10B3
Operator
Sterling Airways
Registration
OY-STL
Flight origin
Colombo International Airport, Colombo, Ceylon
1st stopover
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Bombay, India
2nd stopover
Dubai Airport, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Last stopover
Esenboğa International Airport, Ankara, Turkey
Destination
Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark
Occupants
112
Passengers
106
Crew
6
Fatalities
112
Survivors
0
On 14 March 1972, Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashed into a mountain ridge on approach to Dubai in Al Hail, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Flight 296 was a charter flight from Colombo to Copenhagen with stops in Bombay, Dubai, and Ankara. All 112 passengers and crew on board died in the crash which was attributed to pilot error. The flight was operated by a Sud Aviation Caravelle, registration OY-STL.[1] To date, it is the deadliest air disaster to involve a Caravelle and the deadliest air disaster in the history of the United Arab Emirates along with Gulf Air Flight 771 which also killed 112.[2]
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