Egypt blames Istanbul control tower for accident .  CAIRO 1996-08-22  The chairman of national carrier EgyptAir on Thursday blamed the control tower at Istanbul airport for the EgyptAir plane accident .  Twenty people were injured on Wednesday when the [START_ENT] EgyptAir [END_ENT] Boeing 707 overshot the runway , caught fire , hit a taxi and skipped across a road onto a railway line .  Chairman Mohamed Fahim Rayyan told a news conference at Cairo airport : " The control tower should have allocated the plane another runway , instead of the one the plane landed on . "  " The one it landed on is 2,250 metres ( 2,460 yards ) long while the other one if more than 3,000 metres ( 3,300 yards ) long and is less steep , " he added .  He said a Turkish civil aviation authority official had made the same point and he noted that a Turkish plane had a similar accident there in 1994 .  The EgyptAir pilot blamed Turkish airport staff for misleading him .  The landing took place after a rainstorm .  " Its not an accident .  It 's very wet .  The brake action is very poor and the tower said it 's medium .  That 's wrong , " the pilot told private Ihlas news agency in English .
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