| Date: | Monday 29 January 1973 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Ilyushin Il-18D |
| Owner/operator: | EgyptAir |
| Registration: | SU-AOV |
| MSN: | 188011003 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 37 / Occupants: 37 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 16 km NNE of Nicosia Airport (NIC) -
 Cyprus
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA) |
| Nicosia Airport (NIC/LCNC) |
The Il-18 crashed into the Kyrenia Mountain range near the village of Karavas, at an altitude of 783 m (117 m below the crest) while on downwind on a nighttime approach to Nicosia runway 14.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
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