Accident | |
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Date | 29 July 2011 |
Summary | Cockpit fire on ground |
Site | Cairo International Airport, Cairo, Egypt 30°07′N 31°24′E / 30.117°N 31.400°E |
Total fatalities | 0 |
Total injuries | 7 |
Aircraft | |
SU-GBP, the aircraft involved, at Heathrow Airport in 2000 | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 777-266ER |
Aircraft name | Nefertiti |
Operator | EgyptAir |
IATA flight No. | MS667 |
ICAO flight No. | MSR667 |
Call sign | EGYPTAIR 667 |
Registration | SU-GBP |
Flight origin | Cairo International Airport, Cairo, Egypt |
Destination | King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
Occupants | 317 |
Passengers | 307 |
Crew | 10 |
Fatalities | 0 |
Injuries | 5 |
Survivors | 317 |
Ground casualties | |
Ground injuries | 2 |
On 29 July 2011, a Boeing 777 on a scheduled passenger flight from Cairo, Egypt, to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, flying as Egyptair Flight 667, suffered a cockpit fire on the ground at Cairo Airport, while preparing to depart. There were no fatalities, but seven people were treated for smoke inhalation. The aircraft was damaged beyond economic repair.[1]
The subsequent investigation found that the fire had originated in the crew's emergency oxygen system storage area, but was unable to conclusively determine the source of ignition, nor the cause of the oxygen leak that fuelled the fire.