1972 Egyptair Boeing 707 accident near Beni Suef
Boeing 707-366C · The 1972 Egyptair Boeing 707 accident near Beni Suef occurred on a training flight of Egyptair on 5 December 1972
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
- 6 · 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
Boeing 707-366C
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 707
- 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-AOW
- Operator
- Egyptair
- Onboard fatalities
- 6
- Route
- From Cairo International Airport (CAI)To Cairo International Airport (CAI)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft structures
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Beni Suef, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1972 Egyptair Boeing 707 accident near Beni Suef occurred on a training flight of Egyptair on 5 December 1972. In flight, an engine together with its engine pylon tore off the Boeing 707-366C aircraft used on this flight, whereupon the aircraft went out of control and crashed. The five occupants on board were killed in the accident.
Accident sequence
The aircraft took off from Cairo Airport at 14:34 for the training flight. While following airway A1C, it crashed to the ground at 15:05 near Beni Suef, about 125 kilometres south of Cairo, and was completely destroyed, killing all six occupants.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The accident investigation found that engine no. 4 (outer right) had torn off in flight together with the engine pylon. The aircraft had gone out of control as a result of this structural failure.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Boeing 707 der Egyptair bei Beni Suef 1972” (revision 231954546, 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 Boeing 707 der Egyptair bei Beni Suef 1972
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 231954546 · 2023-03-19 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q114559449
- 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 Boeing 707 der Egyptair bei Beni Suef 1972" (page 12394780, revision 231954546), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A crew training flight by the airline Egyptair in its own Boeing 707: an airline's own training flight. The article: "occurred on a training flight of Egyptair on 5 December 1972"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (2)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.
- The German article contradicts itself on the fatalities: its text says the five occupants were killed; its infobox (used here) gives 6 crew and 6 fatalities.