Clive Okoth

Captain Clive Okoth (born circa 1982) is a Ugandan airline pilot, who serves as a captain at Uganda National Airlines Company, Uganda's national carrier airline, on the CRJ 900 aircraft, effective April 2019.

Background and education Okoth was born in Uganda. After early education in Ugandan schools, he went on to train at the East African Civil Aviation Academy in Soroti, in the Eastern Region of Uganda. Later, he obtained further pilot training outside the country. He holds a Commercial Pilot Licence and an ICAO Airline Transport Pilots License.

Career Okoth's first job, out of flight school, was with the now defunct Air Uganda. While there, he served as a First Officer on the CRJ200 and he made Captain on the aircraft class before the airline closed shop. When Air Uganda folded in 2014, he moved on to Arik Air Limited, based at Lagos International Airport, in Lagos State, Nigeria. At Arik Air, Okoth served as Captain on the CRJ700, CRJ900 and CRJ1000.

In 2018, he was hired by the revived Uganda Airlines. He is one of the flight crew who piloted the two maiden aircraft from Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, to Entebbe, Uganda, in April 2019. As of December 2019, he had piloted the CRJ 200, the MD 87, the CRJ 900 and the CRJ 1000 aircraft. At that time, he was the youngest flight captain among the Uganda Airlines flight crew.

Personal Clive Okoth is a married father of three children as of December 2019.