EgyptAir Flight 763 was an international non-scheduled passenger flight from

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, to Aden, South Yemen. On 19 March 1972, the flight was a

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registered in Yugoslavia as YU-AHR and operated by the newly renamed EgyptAir. It crashed into the Shamsan Mountains on approach to Aden, killing all 30 people on board.

Aircraft

The aircraft involved was a

. It was built in 1970 as construction number 47503 with manufacturer's serial number 587 and registered as YU-AHR.

Accident

On 19 March 1972 EgyptAir Flight 763 was on a flight from Cairo International Airport in Egypt to

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in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen), via Jeddah, Saudi Arabia."World News:Aircraft loss"
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'' 30 March 1972, p. 435 The aircraft was chartered from the Yugoslav airline Inex Adria with 21 passengers and 9 crew members on board. Flight 763 was on a visual approach to land on runway 08 into

when the aircraft struck Jebel Shamsan, the highest peak of

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, an extinct

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,Pete Scholey,

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. ''Who Dares Wins: Special Forces Heroes of the SAS'' Osprey (2008) p. 57 located from the airport. On impact the aircraft burned, killing all on board. At the time of the accident, it was the deadliest to have occurred in South Yemen. As of November 2011, it remains the deadliest

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accident and the second deadliest aviation accident to have occurred in

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vice Jebel Shamsan near Aden, South Yemen)
Photo of YU-AHR
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