Sudan Airways Flight 1165
Golden Star Air Cargo for Sudan Airways Boeing 707-321C · Controlled flight into terrain
From Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) to Khartoum International Airport (KRT)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 7 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Boeing 707-321C
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 707
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- ST-ALX
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)To Khartoum International Airport (KRT)
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Personnel issues › Task performance
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
Sudan Airways Flight 1165 (flight number IATA: SD1165, ICAO: SUD1165, callsign: SUDANAIR 1165) was an international cargo flight of the airline Golden Star Air Cargo, operated on 24 March 1992 on behalf of Sudan Airways from Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport to Khartoum Airport with a scheduled intermediate stop at Athens-Ellinikon Airport. Shortly before the intermediate stop in Athens, the Boeing 707-321C operating this flight, with the aircraft registration ST-ALX, struck a mountain, and all seven occupants on board were killed.
Accident sequence
The Golden Star Air Cargo aircraft was operating a cargo flight on behalf of Sudan Airways. The aircraft, which had departed from Amsterdam, had received landing clearance for runway 33R on approach to Athens Airport. During the final approach the aircraft deviated from the instrument landing system course and struck a mountainside of the Hymettus range at a height of about 800 metres. The aircraft was completely destroyed on impact, and all seven occupants were killed.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The accident investigation found that the captain had not followed the standard procedures for an approach supported by the instrument landing system and had instead attempted a visual approach. Although the captain had stated by radio that he had received the ILS localizer, the accident investigation found that the aircraft was not flying the course specified by the localizer. The pilots decided too late to carry out a missed approach, so that the collision with the mountain could no longer be averted.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Sudan-Airways-Flug 1165” (revision 255340829, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Sudan-Airways-Flug 1165
- Article
- Sudan-Airways-Flug 1165
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 255340829 · 2025-04-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q134003611
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Sudan-Airways-Flug 1165" (page 13465196, revision 255340829), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.