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Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 was a scheduled international Afriqiyah Airways passenger flight from Johannesburg, South Africa to Tripoli, Libya. On 12 May 2010 at about 06:01 local time (04:01 UTC ) while on approach to Tripoli International Airport , the aircraft crashed about 1,200 metres (3,900 ft; 1,300 yd) short of the runway.
5A-ONG, the Airbus A330-200 involved in the crash of Flight 771. On 12 May 2010, at 04:10 UTC (06:10 Tripoli time) an Airbus A330-202, flying from Johannesburg in South Africa to Tripoli, crashed on approach to Tripoli airport. [30] 11 crew members and 93 passengers were killed. The sole survivor was a nine-year-old Dutch boy. [31]
On 20 September 2012, Syrian Air Flight 501 from Damascus to Latakia, operated by an Airbus A320-200, collided in mid air with a military helicopter during the climb. The airliner returned to Damascus for a safe landing. Approximately half of the vertical stabilizer was broken off the A320. The helicopter crashed killing all three flight crew. [46]
Jawaharlal Nehru at Damascus Airport. In 1965 the construction of the airport was entrusted to a group of French companies (SCB, CSF, Spie and Cegelec), led by the SCB. [3] Damascus Airport was opened in the late 1960s, replacing the old Mazzeh military airport that previously served as the city's main aviation hub.
CAIRO (AP) — One of Libya’s rival prime ministers on Monday returned to the capital of Tripoli from Italy on a charter flight with a commercial airline, the first direct flight between the two ...
Zoom took off while planes stalled, as the video-conferencing company went from 10 million daily meeting participants in December 2019 to 300 million a few months later in April 2020.
The Lufthansa jet departed at 18:50, this time heading for Tripoli. [16] At 21:03, it arrived at Tripoli International Airport, where the hostages were finally set free. [16] In Libya and other countries of the region, mass celebrations erupted, [2] with the Lufthansa hijackers and the liberated Munich perpetrators being treated as heroes.
Watch a live view of the Gaza skyline as the Israel-Hamas war enters a fifth day. Palestinian civilians were scrambling to find safe havens on Wednesday morning (11 October) as Israel stepped up a ...