Egypt BCS3 at Cairo on Jan 9th 2021, intercepted wrong ILS, corrected and descended below safe height before going around
Last Update: January 9, 2021 / 18:42:23 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jan 9, 2021
Classification
Incident
Airline
Egypt Air
Flight number
MS-714
Departure
Beirut, Lebanon
Destination
Cairo, Egypt
Aircraft Registration
SU-GFI
Aircraft Type
Airbus A220-300
ICAO Type Designator
BCS3
Airport ICAO Code
HECA
The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for about 5 hours, then returned to service.
Metars:
HECA 091000Z 02004KT 1000 R05L/1000 R23R/1000 BR SCT025 18/17 Q1018 NOSIG=
HECA 090930Z 31004KT 0500 R05L/0500 R23R/0500 FG SCT020 17/17 Q1019 NOSIG=
HECA 090900Z 01002KT 0500 R05L/0500 R23R/0500 FG SCT020 15/15 Q1020 NOSIG=
HECA 090830Z 05002KT 0300 R05L/0300 R23R/0300 FG VV/// 15/15 Q1020 NOSIG=
HECA 090800Z 33002KT 0300 R05L/0300 R23R/0300 FG VV/// 14/14 Q1020 NOSIG=
HECA 090730Z 02002KT 0100 R05L/0100 R23R/0100 FG VV/// 14/14 Q1020 NOSIG=
HECA 090700Z 04002KT 0100 R05L/0100 R23R/0100 FG VV/// 14/14 Q1020 NOSIG=
HECA 090630Z 05004KT 0100 R05L/0100 R23R/0100 FG VV/// 13/13 Q1019 NOSIG=
HECA 090600Z 05004KT 0100 R05L/0100 R23R/0100 FG VV/// 13/13 Q1019 NOSIG=
HECA 090530Z 05004KT 0200 R05L/0200 R23R/0200 FG VV/// 13/13 Q1019 NOSIG=
HECA 090500Z 05004KT 0200 R05L/0200 R23R/0200 FG VV/// 14/14 Q1018 NOSIG=
HECA 090430Z 04003KT 0200 R05L/0200 R23R/0200 FG VV/// 14/14 Q1018 NOSIG=
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jan 9, 2021
Classification
Incident
Airline
Egypt Air
Flight number
MS-714
Departure
Beirut, Lebanon
Destination
Cairo, Egypt
Aircraft Registration
SU-GFI
Aircraft Type
Airbus A220-300
ICAO Type Designator
BCS3
Airport ICAO Code
HECA
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