| Date: | Tuesday 10 June 1986 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fokker F-27 Friendship 500 |
| Owner/operator: | Air Sinai |
| Registration: | SU-GAD |
| MSN: | 10659 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2063 hours |
| Cycles: | 2378 flights |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 535-7 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 23 / Occupants: 26 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Cairo International Airport (CAI) -
 Egypt
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA) |
| Alexandria Airport (ALY/HEAX) |
Due to bad weather at the destination Alexandria, the Air Sinai F-27 returned to Cairo. The aircraft crashed short of the runway while approaching in a sandstorm. The aircraft collided with the side of a building and caught fire.
Sources:
Willem Wendt
Location
Images:
photo (c) Fokker, Frank Ellemers Collection; in flight; February 1983
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