Flash Airlines B-737 crash in Red Sea after takeoff
Sharm El Sheik, Egypt
January 3, 2004

On January 3, 2004, a Boeing 737-300 (SU-ZCF) operated by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian charter company, crashed into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff from Sharm El-Sheikh, en route to Paris, France, via Cairo. The airplane was carrying 135 passengers and 13 crewmembers; there were no survivors.

The investigation was led by the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation. The U.S., as the country of manufacture, participated under the terms of Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation.

Items below are from the NTSB public docket, and pertain to NTSB comments on the Egyptian draft of the final accident report. All items are in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), which requires the free Acrobat Reader from Adobe for viewing. The complete docket, including the Egyptian final report, is available upon request from the Records Management Division.
 

Docket Items File ID Filing Date Document Title Pages  Size 343982 Mar 24, 2006 U.S. Accredited Representative Transmittal Letter for U.S. Submission on ECAA Draft Final Report 1  65K 343220 Mar 15, 2006 U.S. Submission on ECAA Draft Final Report -- Summary Letter 7  62K 343221 Mar 15, 2006 U.S. Submission on ECAA Draft Final Report -- Detailed Comments 40  324K