1970 United Arab Airlines Antonov An-24 accident near Cairo
Antonov An-24W · The 1970 United Arab Airlines Antonov An-24 accident near Cairo occurred on a training flight of United Arab Airlines on 19 July 1970
From Cairo International Airport (CAI) to Cairo International Airport (CAI)
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 3 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 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
- Airline
Antonov An-24W
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-24
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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-ANZ
- Operator
- United Arab Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From Cairo International Airport (CAI)To Cairo International Airport (CAI)
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Task performance
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Cairo, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1970 United Arab Airlines Antonov An-24 accident near Cairo occurred on a training flight of United Arab Airlines on 19 July 1970. During a touch-and-go manoeuvre, control was lost of the Antonov An-24W aircraft used on this flight, whereupon it crashed near Cairo International Airport. The three occupants were killed in the accident.
Accident sequence
During a training flight the crew carried out several successful touch-and-go manoeuvres. After the fifth (according to B3A: sixth) touchdown, the aircraft came to a stop on the runway as planned; the first officer was to perform a further take-off with a simulated engine failure. During this, after lift-off the aircraft climbed steeply up to a height of 50 metres and rolled to the right up to a 90° bank, while the propeller of engine no. 2 (right) was feathered. After a stall the aircraft crashed.
Investigation and cause
Cause
Human error was determined as the cause. The control inputs of the first officer being checked had been faulty, and timely corrective action by the check captain and the captain had not been taken.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Antonow An-24 der United Arab Airlines bei Kairo 1970” (revision 261310648, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall einer Antonow An-24 der United Arab Airlines bei Kairo 1970
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 261310648 · 2025-11-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q114522863
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer Antonow An-24 der United Arab Airlines bei Kairo 1970" (page 12394049, revision 261310648), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.