Date:	Sunday 6 May 2007
Time:	08:30
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300
Owner/operator:	Multinational Force and Observers-MFO, lsf L'Armée de L'Air
Registration:	742/F-RACB
MSN:	742
Year of manufacture:	1981
Total airframe hrs:	10939 hours
Cycles:	15168 flights
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near El-Thamad -   Egypt
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	El-Gora Airport (EGH/HEGR)
Destination airport:	Santa Katarina-Mount Sinai Airport (SKV/HESC)

Narrative:
The Twin Otter was owned by the French Air Force and operated on behalf of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in the Egyptian/Israeli border in the Sinai peninsula. The airplane departed the El-Gora Air Base at 07:46 on a flight to Santa Katarina (SKV). Preliminary information suggests that the pilot attempted an emergency landing on a road. It collided with a truck and crashed.

Neuf morts, dont huit Français, dans l'accident d'un avion militaire dans le Sinaï (AP, 6-5-2007)
Aérosteles : Lieux de mémoire aéronautique

photo (c) Miklos SZABO; El-Gora (HEGR); 24 December 2001

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Lille-Lesquin Airport (LIL/LFQQ); June 1981

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