ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 329762
Date: | Monday 9 December 1974 |
Time: | 19:15 |
Type: | Ilyushin Il-18D |
Owner/operator: | EgyptAir |
Registration: | YR-IMK |
MSN: | 186009104 |
Year of manufacture: | 1966 |
Total airframe hrs: | 13672 hours |
Cycles: | 5124 flights |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 20 km NW off Jeddah International Airport (JED) -
Saudi Arabia
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Jeddah International Airport (JED/OEJD) |
Destination airport: | Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA) |
Narrative:The Ilyushin Il-18D was leased by EgyptAir from the Romanian airline Tarom to fly hadj pilgrims to and from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The aircraft took off from Jeddah at 19:05 on a repositioning flight to Cairo, Egypt. Shortly after takeoff, while the aircraft was about 20 km north-west off Jeddah, radar and radio contact was lost.
was flying from Jeddah to Cairo when it crashed into the Red Sea.
Sources:
evz.ro Soviet Transports Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Düsseldorf Airport (DUS); May 1973
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