What the records say
- When
- 20 Mar 1969
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 23.96° N, 32.82° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 100
- Injured
- 5
1969 Aswan Ilyushin Il-18 crash
Aviation accident in Egypt
On 20 March 1969, an Ilyushin Il-18 operated by United Arab Airlines crashed while attempting to land at Aswan Airport, Egypt, killing 100 of the 105 passengers and crew on board.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “One hundred of the 105 passengers and crew on a United Arab Airlines flight, most of them Muslim pilgrims returning to Aswan from Mecca”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа Ил-18 в Асуане (Египет)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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