Il-62 accident in Cairo
EgyptAir Ilyushin Il-62 · Crew error
From an unrecorded airport to Cairo
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
- Occurrence
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 59
- 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
Ilyushin Il-62
- Aircraft type
- Ilyushin IL-62
- 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-ARN
- Operator
- EgyptAir
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Cairo
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article's coordinates are more than 250 km from Cairo, the place its infobox names.
From the Wikipedia article
The Il-62 accident in Cairo was an aviation accident involving an EgyptAir Il-62 passenger aircraft that occurred on Friday 16 June 1972 in Cairo. The accident occurred on the first anniversary of the start of Il-62 operations in Africa.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Авария Ил-62 в Каире” (revision 151358255, 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
Russian Wikipedia article: Авария Ил-62 в Каире
- Article
- Авария Ил-62 в Каире
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 151358255 · 2026-01-25 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q18396268
- 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
- ru Wikipedia article "Авария Ил-62 в Каире" (page 5201577, revision 151358255), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates and infobox site disagree
- 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): An EgyptAir passenger aircraft: an airline flight. The article: "involving an EgyptAir Il-62 passenger aircraft"
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.