Misrair Flight 738
EgyptAir Vickers Viscount · Structural failure caused by bad weather
From Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport (CIA)
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
- 21 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 21
- 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
- 0
- 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
Vickers Viscount
- Aircraft type
- Vickers VISCOUNT
- 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-AKW
- Operator
- EgyptAir
- Onboard fatalities
- 21
- Route
- From Geneva International Airport (GVA)To Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport (CIA)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Misrair Flight 738 was operated by the Egyptian airline Misrair on 29 September 1960 with a Vickers Viscount which sank into the Tyrrhenian Sea 27.5 km north of the island of Elba at a depth of 120 m, in which all 21 occupants of the aircraft, 17 passengers and 4 crew members, perished.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Italian Wikipedia article “Volo Misrair 738” (revision 124023762, 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
Italian Wikipedia article: Volo Misrair 738
- Article
- Volo Misrair 738
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 124023762 · 2021-11-14 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q15728041
- 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
- it Wikipedia article "Volo Misrair 738" (page 4714607, revision 124023762), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- Wikipedia article 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
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Italian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.