| Date: | Friday 16 June 1972 |
| Time: | 11:45 |
| Type: |  Ilyushin Il-62 |
| Owner/operator: | EgyptAir |
| Registration: | SU-ARN |
| MSN: | 00801 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1970 |
| Engine model: | Kuznetsov NK-8-4 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 59 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Cairo-Almaza Air Base (HEAZ) -
 Egypt
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | |
| Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA) |
The Ilyushin landed on the wrong airport and overran. The crew landed at Almaza runway 36 instead of Cairo International Airport runway 34.
The aircraft landed 700 m down the (shorter) runway 36, because the first 650 m of the Cairo runway was unserviceable.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
Location
Images:
photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH); 04 August 1971
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