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Sterling Airways Flight 296 took off from Colombo International Airport in Sri Lanka on the 14 March 1972 on a flight to Copenhagen Airport in Denmark with a refueling stopover in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. There were 106 passengers and 6 crew onboard the Sud Aviation Caravelle when after a 2 hour flight the aircraft crashed into a mountain ridge near Kalba at 1600 feet. All 112 passengers and crew were killed.
Nationality
Passengers
Crew
Total
Danish
68
6
74
Swedish
20
-
20
Norwegian
12
-
12
Finnish
4
-
4
West German
2
-
2
Total
106
6
112
Sources: [3][4]
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This unreferenced section requires citations to ensure verifiability.
The government in the United Arab Emirates launched an investigation in the crash of flight 296. The investigation found that the pilots descended below minimum prescribed altitude, probably because the pilots thought they were closer to Dubai than they actually were, due to incorrect information on the outdated flight plan and/or due to a misreading of the weather radar.
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^ "Photo of Caravelle OY-STL". http://www.airliners.net/photo/Sterling-Airways/Aerospatiale-SE-210-Caravelle/0235864/&sid=509b45669f35d992d85716020b1a14ec.
^ "Aviation Safety Network". http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19720314-1.
^ "112 persons feared killed in crash of Danish plane". http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vZorAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gPYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3876,2023925&dq=sterling+airways+dubai&hl=en.
^ "Plane crash death count may reach 112". http://www.newspaperarchive.com/freepdfviewer.aspx?img=15524471.
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Denmark portal
United Arab Emirates portal
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The worst air disaster in the history of the United Arab Emirates (Danish).
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Jan 07 Iberia Airlines Flight 602
Jan 12 Braniff Flight 38
Jan 26 JAT Yugoslav Flight 367
Mar 03 Mohawk Airlines Flight 405
Mar 14 Sterling Airways Flight 296
Mar 19 EgyptAir Flight 763
May 05 Alitalia Flight 112
May 08 Sabena Flight 571
May 30 Lod Airport massacre
May 30 Delta Air Lines Flight 9570
Jun 12 American Airlines Flight 96
Jun 14 Japan Airlines Flight 471
Jun 15 Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z
Jun 18 British European Airways Flight 548
Jun 24 Prinair Flight 191
Jun 29 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision
Jul 31 Delta Air Lines Flight 841
Aug 14 Königs Wusterhausen disaster
Aug 16 Burma Airways Thandwe crash
Sep 24 Japan Airlines Flight 472
Oct 13 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
Nov 10 Southern Airways Flight 49
Nov 15 Ansett Airlines Flight 232
Nov 28 Japan Airlines Flight 446
Dec 08 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 708
Dec 08 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 631
Dec 08 United Airlines Flight 553
Dec 20 Chicago-O'Hare runway collision
Dec 23 Braathens Flight 239
Dec 29 Eastern Air Lines Flight 401
Incidents resulting in at least 50 deaths shown in italics
Deadliest incident shown in bold smallcaps
Coordinates: 25°04′27″N 56°21′19″E / 25.07417°N 56.35528°E / 25.07417; 56.35528
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