ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333556
| Date: | Monday 12 June 1961 |
| Time: | 04:11 |
| Type: |  Lockheed L-188C Electra |
| Owner/operator: | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
| Registration: | PH-LLM |
| MSN: | 2019 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1960 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 20 / Occupants: 36 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 4 km SE of Cairo International Airport (CAI) -
 Egypt
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO/LIRF) |
| Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
KLM Flight 823 departed Amsterdam on June 11 at 18:50 for a flight to Kuala Lumpur via Munich, Rome, Cairo, and Karachi. The Electra was approaching Cairo runway 34 when it crashed 4 km short of the runway threshold, at a point 60 m above threshold level.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was caused by the pilot-in-command inattention to his instruments."
Sources:
L'Unità, 13-6-1961
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