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3 unusual facts about Cairo International Airport


Asmaa

Asmaa (Hend Sabry) is a woman in her 40s living with her aging father Hosni (Sayed Ragab) and teenage daughter Habiba (Fatma Adel) in Cairo, and struggling to support them with her meagre earnings from a menial job at Cairo International Airport.

Boutros Salim AbouNader

Interestingly, in 1963 he had been the co-pilot of a Vickers Viscount which accidentally landed on the uncompleted new runway of Heliopolis Airport, prior to its re-opening as Cairo International Airport.

Poppy Flowers

Egyptian officials erroneously believed they had recovered the painting only hours after its theft when two Italian suspects attempted to board a plane to Italy at Cairo International Airport.


1973 EgyptAir Ilyushin Il-18 crash

The turboprop ran the international route between Cairo International Airport and the now defunct Nicosia International Airport.

EgyptAir Flight 321

Fifteen minutes after taking off from Cairo International Airport, an Italian aircraft pilot called the airport and told them that he had received a beam aerial from the Egyptian aircraft heading to Luxor that it had been hijacked and the crew was under terrorists' control.

PIA Flight 705

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 was a Boeing 720–040B that crashed while descending to land on Runway 34 at Cairo International Airport on May 20, 1965, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew onboard.


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Flight 705

PIA Flight 705, a Boeing 720-040B that crashed while descending to land at Cairo International Airport

Transport in Cairo

Cairo International Airport is the busiest airport in Egypt and the primary hub for Star Alliance member EgyptAir.