Boeing 707 crash, Apr 2, 2004, Cairo-Intl
Boeing 707 accident on April 2, 2004 near Cairo-Intl, Cairo, Egypt with no fatalities. Cause: Not determined; no official investigation report was...
- Date: April 2, 2004
- Aircraft: Boeing 707
- Location: Cairo-Intl, Cairo, Egypt
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Takeoff and climb
- Cause: Not determined; no official investigation report was found. Sources differ on which main gear collapsed.
An Air Memphis Boeing 707-366C cargo flight from Cairo to Ostend was taking off at night from Cairo International Airport on 2 April 2004 when a main landing gear collapsed. The aircraft veered off the runway and stopped a few hundred metres further on with two engines torn off. All seven occupants escaped uninjured and the aircraft was written off.