Serious Incident to the Airbus A330 registered SU-GCI and operated by Egyptair on 15/05/2017 at Cairo [Investigation led by AIB / Egypt]

Preliminary data based on the notification from the Egyptian authorities:

During take-off roll, uncontained engine failures (followed by rejected take-off)

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General information
Local date	15/05/2017
Responsible entity	Egypt - AIB
State or area of occurrence	Egypt
Location	AD Le Caire
Human consequences	None
Aircraft consequences	Substantial
Occurrence class	Serious incident
File number	BEA2017-0268

Flight Information
Aircraft category	Aeroplane - Large aeroplane
Operator	Egypt - Egypt Air
Manufacturer / Model	AIRBUS - A330
Aircraft Registration	SU-GCI
State of registry	Egypt
Last departure point	Egypt - HECA (CAI): Cairo/Intl
Planned destination	China - ZBAA (PEK): Beijing/Capital
Flight phase	Take-off
Serial number	696
Operator Type AG
Operation Type	Commercial Air Transport - Passenger - Airline

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