Crash Course: Egypt’s Soviet Adventure

[RStretton]

I started this post intending to look at UAA/Egyptair's relationship with Soviet aircraft types but finished in awe of how many aircraft the airline crashed in a 15 year window. By my reckoning they crashed 38% of their fleet. Staggering stats and here are the details:

https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/airline-history-blog/crash-course-egypts-soviet-adventure

Egyptair Tupolev TU-154 by rstretton, on Flickr

[eugenevh]

Interesting read. Thank you.