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On 29 October 1972 (a Sunday), a Lufthansa Boeing 727-100 was hijacked: Flight 615 on the Damascus-Beirut-Ankara-Munich-Frankfurt route. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The aircraft had originated at Damascus International Airport in the early morning, with seven crew members but initially without any passengers.
Ghadames Air, a rebranding of Ghadames Air Transport, resumed flights in spring 2022, [6] after a hiatus of several years. [7] It serves the following scheduled destinations: Istanbul - Istanbul Airport [8] Tripoli - Mitiga International Airport base; Tunis - Tunis Carthage Airport [9] Boeing 737 of Ghadames Air at Tunis-Carthage's airport, Feb ...
The Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad fell, bringing a stunning end to his family’s 50-year reign following a lightning offensive by Islamist rebels. A plane carrying Assad left Damascus on ...
Syrian Airlines (Arabic: السورية للطيران), operating as SyrianAir (Arabic: السورية), is the flag carrier of Syria. [2] It operates scheduled international services to several destinations in Asia, Europe and North Africa, though the number of flights operated has seriously declined since 2011 due to the Arab Spring and subsequent Syrian war.
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]
For the first time in over a decade, 270 Syrians traveled on a direct flight early Tuesday from Damascus to Saudi Arabia for the annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage, the Syrian Transportation Ministry ...
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.
Watch live as Damascus residents pray at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on the first Friday (13 December) after rebels ousted Bashar al-Assad's regime. Syrians are celebrating the demise of Assad ...