According to Al-Arabiya, a training aircraft owned by the Egyptian Academy of Sciences crashed near the 6th of October Airport in unclear circumstances, killing a flight instructor and wounding a female trainee pilot. Egyptian civil aviation authorities announced an investigation into the accident.
A flight instructor was killed and a trainee pilot wounded when a civilian training aircraft crashed in Egypt on Tuesday evening, according to a report by Al-Arabiya. The plane, owned by the Egyptian Academy of Sciences, had taken off from the 6th of October Airport before going down in unclear circumstances. The civil aviation authority announced it had opened an investigation. The accident does not involve Israeli or military assets; no connection to regional hostilities has been reported.
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