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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.
Al-Gashey, his nephew Jamal Al-Gashey, and Mohammed Safady were released seven and a half weeks later on 29 October 1972, when Lufthansa Flight 615 from Damascus to Frankfurt was hijacked by Arab militants. [5] The hijackers demanded the release of the three surviving militants or they would blow up the plane.
Although the airport was closed to civilians around October 2015, [3] it has been reopened again, and Syrian flight companies including Cham Wings Airlines and Syrian Air have provided regular flights into Qamishli from Damascus, Latakia and Beirut. The airport used to receive seasonal foreign flights from Germany and Sweden. [4]
Damascus: Damascus International Airport: Terminated [10] Tajikistan: Dushanbe: Dushanbe International Airport: Terminated [98] Tanzania: Dar es Salaam: Julius Nyerere International Airport: Terminated [12] Thailand: Bangkok: Suvarnabhumi Airport: Passenger [11] Phuket: Phuket International Airport: Passenger [44] [99] [64] [100] Togo: Lomé ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Hama, Homs, Damascus – all again in the headlines overnight because of the regime’s swift fall, yet too home to the most heinous parts of its history – respectively the 1982 massacre of ...