Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871 was a scheduled flight from Copenhagen in Denmark to the Egyptian capital of Cairo, with several intermediate stops; operated by Scandinavian Airlines System. On 19 January 1960, the Sud Aviation Caravelle flying the service crashed while operating a leg between Yeşilköy Airport and Esenboğa International Airport in Turkey. The flight was on approach but crashed six nautical miles from the airport, killing all 42 occupants on board. This was the first fatal crash of a Caravelle.
Q1748
Copenhagen
LOC
Q85
Cairo
LOC
Q187854
Scandinavian Airlines System
ORG
Q6503
Sud Aviation Caravelle
MEDIA
Q86473
Yeşilköy Airport
LOC
Q430490
Esenboğa International Airport
LOC
Q93318
nautical mile
Concept
Q7429941
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871
MEDIA
1960-01-19T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
19 January 1960
DATE
+42^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
42
NUMBER
item operated
point in time
number of deaths