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Military airplane shot down in Egypt (2): wounded were 14

Cairo, Egypt - The aircraft was forced to carry out an emergency landing

Persons injured yesterday afternoon on board the Egyptian patrol plane shot down on the Sinai Peninsula would be 14 (see for detail AVIONEWS). The aircraft was shot down and then it would have been crashed into a mountain, but the pilot achieved to made landing the plane at a nearby airfield. The circumstances of the crash are as yet unclear. According to some reports, people on the ground fired at...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 108466
Rome, Italy, 11/25/2004 12:02
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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