Egypt B738 over Mediterranean on Nov 12th 2013, loss comm

Last Update: November 12, 2013 / 22:17:13 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Nov 12, 2013

Classification
Incident

Airline
Egypt Air

Flight number
MS-785

Departure
Cairo, Egypt

Aircraft Registration
SU-GED

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800

ICAO Type Designator
B738

An Egypt Air Boeing 737-800, registration SU-GED performing flight MS-785 from Cairo (Egypt) to Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with 110 passengers, was enroute at FL360 over the Mediterranean Sea about 100nm northwest of Alexandria (Egypt) when the crew squawked loss of communication due to a stuck microphone, descended the aircraft to FL305, turned around and set course to return to Cairo. While on approach to Cairo the crew managed to get the microphone unstuck and continued for normal safe landing.

A replacement Boeing 737-800 registration SU-GEB reached Frankfurt with a delay of 3:15 hours.

The incident aircraft was able to resume service about 10 hours after landing.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Nov 12, 2013

Classification
Incident

Airline
Egypt Air

Flight number
MS-785

Departure
Cairo, Egypt

Aircraft Registration
SU-GED

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800

ICAO Type Designator
B738

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