1987 Egypt Desert Crash: Twin-Engine Aircraft Lost on Athens-Jeddah Delivery Flight (N711AF)

Incident Overview A twin-engine aircraft operating a delivery flight from Athens to Jeddah lost control and crashed in a desert area of Egypt. The circumstances of the loss were not specified in the source. ## Search and Recovery Search and rescue operations began promptly but were discontinued after several days because no trace of the aircraft or its five occupants had been located. On 6 March 1987, wreckage was discovered approximately 100 km south of Katab. ## Known Facts The source identifies the aircraft only as a twin-engine airplane and does not provide a registration, operator, specific aircraft type, or cause. The flight was en route from Athens to Jeddah, and the crash site was in an Egyptian desert.