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WPR18WA078 · Beech 58

15 Dec 2017 · Qaroun Lake, Egypt

Egyptian Aviation Academy Beech 58 · Accident

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Event

NTSB case
WPR18WA078
Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
Accident
InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
API-reported fatalities
3 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
Unknown
WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
Not recorded

Beech 58

Aircraft type
Beechcraft 58
Category
Airplane
RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
SU-BLD
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From not recordedTo not recorded
Aircraft age
Not recorded
Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
Unknown
Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
Unknown
Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
Unknown or undetermined
DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
Substantial

Cause areas

No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

On December 15, 2017, about 0930 Coordinated Universal time, a Textron/Beech Model 58 Baron twin engine airplane, SU-BLD, was substantially damaged when it impacted desert terrain about 18 kilometers north of Qaroun Lake, Egypt. The training pilot and the two trainees onboard received fatal injuries.

The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Egypt. This report is for information purposes only and contains only information released by the Government of Egypt. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:

Central Directorate of Aircraft Accident Investigation

Ministry of Civil Aviation

P.O. Box 52, Cairo Airport Road

Heliopolis, Post Number 11776

Cairo

Egypt

Tel.: (20) 2 2268 8371

(20) 2 10053-85769 (mobile)

(20) 2 10053-85869 (mobile)

E-mail:dir.aai@civilaviation.gov.eg

Fax: (20) 2 2267-2888 / 2268-8357

SITA: CAIXYYF

AFTN: HECAYOYX

Website: www.civilaviation.gov.eg

Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record WPR18WA078
Event ID
20180131X12717
Case number
WPR18WA078
Dataset
full-current
Source SHA-256
5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
  • Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
  • No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
  • The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
  • API snapshot SHA-256: edbfabe787be9e98ef2dd3889234d6a737f64bbf2c9233ad043e4f5d0a2452af; retrieved 2026-09-15T06:31:36.007Z.