Egypt Peacekeeper Force Crash in the Sinai Desert,
May 2007
On May 6, 2007, a plane carrying
foreign peacekeepers across the Sinai desert crashed near
a stretch of highway where it had tried to make an emergency
landing, killing eight French soldiers and a Canadian,
officials said. Capt. Mohammed Badr, a police officer in
Sinai, said the plane went down 50 miles from the nearest
major town, el-Nakhl.
It appeared the Canadian-made DeHavilland
DHC-6 Twin Otter tried to land on the mountain highway
but clipped a truck and crashed nearby, said Normand St.
Pierre, a spokesman for the Multinational Force and Observers,
an independent force created by Egypt and Israel to monitor
their border in the Sinai after a 1979 peace deal.
The crash wiped out more than half
of the 15-member French contingent and destroyed the mission's
sole fixed-wing aircraft, St. Pierre said. The aircraft
was on a training mission and carried a "higher than
normal" load of passengers and crew. The truck driver
escaped unharmed.
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