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Egyptair (Egyptian Arabic: مصر للطيران, romanized: Maṣr le-ṭ-Ṭayarān) is the state-owned flag carrier [9] of Egypt.The airline is headquartered at Cairo International Airport, its main hub, operating scheduled passenger and freight services to 81 destinations in Africa, Europe, Asia, and The Americas. [10]
Egyptair Cargo was formed in 2002 from the existing cargo activities of Egyptair, on the creation of The Egyptair Holding Company, as one of its subsidiaries. [2] The company is a member of IATA's Cargo 2000 initiative.
On 31 March 1988, an Arax Airlines Douglas DC-8 crashed on its second takeoff attempt at the runway end because of an engine fire. All four occupants died. [148] On 29 July 2011, EgyptAir Flight 667 caught fire while parked at the terminal just before its scheduled flight to Saudi Arabia. Everyone on board was able to quickly evacuate the aircraft.
Flight tracking enables travellers as well as those picking up travellers after a flight to know whether a flight has landed or is on schedule, for example to determine whether it is time to go to the airport. Aircraft carry ADS-B transponders, which transmit information such as the aircraft ID, GPS position, and altitude as radio signals.
This is a list of destinations served by Egyptair as of March 2023. [1] [2] [3] The list includes terminated destinations, some of which were operated as Misr Airwork, Misr Airlines, Misr Air and United Arab Airlines (UAA). [4] [5] [6] For freighter destinations, see Egyptair Cargo.
A spate of accidents in which recorders stopped working when onboard electrical power was lost, including an Egyptair flight from New York to Cairo in 1999, led the U.S. National Transportation ...
EgyptAir Flight 990 [1] [2] (MSR990) ... and Flight 990 was the only aircraft at the time assigned to fly North Atlantic Track Zulu. Also, a number of military ...
Flightradar24 ADS-B receiver based on jetvision Radarcape [24]. Flightradar24 aggregates data from six sources: [25] Automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast (ADS-B). The principal source is a large number of ground-based ADS-B receivers, which collect data from any aircraft in their local area that are equipped with an ADS-B transponder and feed this data to the internet in real time.