ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 332293
Date: | Friday 30 September 1966 |
Time: | 14:02 |
Type: | Antonov An-24V |
Owner/operator: | United Arab Airlines - UAA |
Registration: | SU-AOM |
MSN: | 37300701 |
Year of manufacture: | 1964 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 43 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Cairo International Airport (CAI) -
Egypt
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Luxor Airport (LXR/HELX) |
Destination airport: | Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA) |
Narrative:The Antonov was rolling for takeoff on runway 20 at Luxor when a camel entered the runway. The pilot-in-command deviated slightly to the right and tried to lift off as soon as he could. The right undercarriage leg however struck the camel. As a result, the right gear leg couldn't be retracted. The crew decided to continue to their destination Cairo, where a wheels-up landing was carried out on a sand strip next to runway 34.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Collision of the aircraft with a camel which entered the runway during take-off because neither the pilot-in-command nor the tower controller noticed the camel in proper time. In addition, attempts of the pilot-in-command to avoid the collision after he first saw the camel were unsuccessful."
Sources:
Soviet Transports Location
Images:
photo (c) Mohammad Tawfik; Cairo International Airport (CAI); 01 October 1966
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