Egypt Air Tailstrike On Aleppo Takeoff:
An Egypt Air Airbus A321-200, performing flight MS-724 from Aleppo (Syria) to Cairo (Egypt) with 130 passengers, contacted the runway surface with its tail while rotating for takeoff from Aleppo at around 05:10L (02:10Z), the crew continued the climb to FL310.
When the aircraft was enroute at FL310 about 85nm east of Larnaca (Cyprus) the crew decided to divert to Larnaca where the aircraft landed safely about 50 minutes after departure from Aleppo. The aircraft received substantial damage.
The remainder of the flight was cancelled.
The scheduled rotation Cairo-Larnaca-Cairo flights MS-741/MS-742 was upgraded from a scheduled Boeing 737-500 to an Airbus A330-200 registration SU-GCK delivering the passengers of MS-724 to Cairo with a delay of 13.5 hours.
Source: Herald
An Egypt Air Airbus A321-200, performing flight MS-724 from Aleppo (Syria) to Cairo (Egypt) with 130 passengers, contacted the runway surface with its tail while rotating for takeoff from Aleppo at around 05:10L (02:10Z), the crew continued the climb to FL310.
When the aircraft was enroute at FL310 about 85nm east of Larnaca (Cyprus) the crew decided to divert to Larnaca where the aircraft landed safely about 50 minutes after departure from Aleppo. The aircraft received substantial damage.
The remainder of the flight was cancelled.
The scheduled rotation Cairo-Larnaca-Cairo flights MS-741/MS-742 was upgraded from a scheduled Boeing 737-500 to an Airbus A330-200 registration SU-GCK delivering the passengers of MS-724 to Cairo with a delay of 13.5 hours.
Source: Herald