French military aircraft crash in Sinai
French Air Force De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter · Unknown
From Al Gora to Saint Catherine
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
- 9 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- Military
De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
- Aircraft type
- de Havilland DHC-6
- 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
- F-RACB
- Operator
- French Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 9
- Route
- From Al GoraTo Saint Catherine
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
French military aircraft crash in Sinai
On Sunday 6 May 2007 there was a crash of a French DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft belonging to the MFO (Multinational Force and Observers) peacekeeping force; 9 people (8 French soldiers and one Canadian) were killed when the French aircraft crashed onto road no. 03 near As-Samad on the Sinai Peninsula in the south-eastern part of the North Sinai Governorate in Egypt (80 km south-east of the town of Nakhl). It is not known what the cause of the tragedy was.
The machine took off at 7:46 from Al Gora base, where the northern part of the MFO contingent is stationed, to Saint Catherine in the central part of Sinai (the vicinity of Mount Sinai).
At 9:15 contact with it was lost and it was then that it crashed.
The official funeral ceremonies took place on 10 May 2007 at North Camp.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Polish Wikipedia article “Katastrofa francuskiego samolotu wojskowego na Synaju” (revision 72903528, 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
Polish Wikipedia article: Katastrofa francuskiego samolotu wojskowego na Synaju
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 72903528 · 2024-02-17 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q11737152
- 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
- pl Wikipedia article "Katastrofa francuskiego samolotu wojskowego na Synaju" (page 1147453, revision 72903528), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- 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
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Polish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.