Sohag International Airport as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737. The apron is designed to handle 6 aircraft, with plans to expand this to accommodate 14 aircraft. The new airport is the fifth international airport in Upper Egypt after Luxor, Aswan, Assiut, and Abu Simbel. The airport primarily caters to domestic travel and traffic between Sohag/Upper Egypt and the Persian Gulf states including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Sohag International Airport Sohag International Airport is an airport serving Sohag, capital of the Sohag Governorate of Egypt. The airport is south of the city. The Sohag VOR-DME (Ident: SHG) is located
Hot air ballooning in Luxor crashed in different locations carrying a total of 60 tourists, resulting in injuries that included broken bones. At Luxor, eight tourists were injured in 2007 when the balloon in which they were riding crash-landed in a field. Four Scottish tourists, were seriously injured in April 2008 when the balloon in which they were traveling crash-landed. Sixteen tourists were injured at Luxor in April 2009 when the balloon in which they were traveling is understood to have collided with a cell phone transmission tower. The most serious accident was the 2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash, in which 19 people were