Douglas DC-4 crash, Sep 3, 1960, El Badary Asyut

Douglas DC-4 accident on September 3, 1960 near El Badary Asyut, Egypt with no fatalities.

A Trek Airways Douglas DC 4 on a Luxembourg to Cairo to Entebbe to Johannesburg charter lost its number two engine to fire over Egypt. The crew could not extinguish the fire and made a belly landing in sand near El Badary, about 30 km south of Asyut, and all 67 occupants got out before the aircraft was destroyed by fire.

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