Jeddah - Cairo

On December 9, 1974 at 07:15 PM, Jeddah - Cairo experienced a crash involving Ilyushin II-18, operated by TAROM - Transporturile Aeriene Române, with the event recorded near Jeddah Makkah l-Mukarramah (<U+0645><U+0643><U+0629> <U+0627><U+0644><U+0645><U+0643><U+0631><U+0645><U+0629>).

The flight was categorized as ferry and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

9 people were known to be on board, 9 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 9, crew fatalities: 9, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The aircraft completed several rotations from Cairo to Jeddah and back on a pilgrim charter program on behalf of Egyptair. The four engine airplane departed Jeddah-King Abdulaziz Airport at 1905LT on a ferry flight to Cairo, carrying nine crew members, six technical crew from TAROM and three stewardesses from Egyptair. 10 minutes after takeoff, while climbing by night and good weather conditions, the airplane went out of control and crashed into the Red Sea about 20 km northwest of Djeddah. The aircraft was lost and all nine occupants were killed. Crew: Ion Mihai Vasilescu, pilot, Razvan Ionescu, copilot, Constantin Duschel, navigator, Coman Stoia, flight engineer, Justina Constantinescu, radio operator, Ion Popescu, flight officer + 3 stewardesses.

Aircraft reference details include registration YR-IMK, MSN 186 0091 04, year of manufacture 1966.