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Egypt Independent
Egypt’s Public Prosecutors inspected the crash site of El-Gouna Airport airplane on Thursday. Eyewitnesses confirmed that the plane tumbled more than once, few meters away from the airport’s runway.
Top Prosecutor Hamada al-Sawy ordered an investigation into Thursday’s crash, which resulted in the death of two pilots.
Medical workers in the Red Sea Governorate reported that the victims are Mohamed Saeed Khalil Mohamed al-Seroojy, 61, and Akram Khalil Khalid Hasan al-Hossary, 36.
Initial investigation reports showed that a two-seater Apollo Fox aircraft had an accident on the runway of Gouna Airport while conducting a test flight.
According to the investigation, the front part of the plane where the two victims sat, was completely destroyed.
Prosecutors took testimonies of two eyewitnesses, who said that “they saw the plane rapidly hit the runway, before rolling over several times”.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation in Egypt said that a plane, belonging to the Air Man Sky Sports company, crashed on Thursday while landing at El-Gouna Airport, Red Sea, killing the two pilots on board.
Egyptian Minister of Civil Aviation Mohamed Manar ordered a special committee to investigate the caus of the accident.
El-Gouna Airport is located inside El-Gouna resort, which was founded by Egyptian billionaire Samih Sawiris more than 30 years ago on the Red Sea coast 25 Kilometres North of Hurghada and about 450 km southeast of Cairo.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm.
