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The airport reopened to commercial flights on 17 August 2006, with the arrival of a Middle East Airlines (MEA) flight around 1:10 p.m. local time from Amman, followed by a Royal Jordanian flight also from Amman. [10] This marked the first commercial flight arrival at Beirut International Airport since the airport's closure almost five weeks before.
The Operation Gift (Hebrew: מבצע תשורה, mivtza t'shura), was an Israeli Special Forces operation at the Beirut International Airport on the evening of 28 December 1968, in retaliation for the attack on the Israeli Airliner El Al Flight 253 two days earlier and the hijacking of El Al Flight 426 five months earlier, both by the Lebanon and Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of ...
Airport name Public airports Beirut: OLBA BEY Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport / Beirut Air Base: Other military airports Qleiaat: OLKA KYE Rene Mouawad Air Base (Kleyate Airport) Rayak: OLRA Rayak Air Base: Hamat: Wujah Al Hajar Air Base: Other airstrips Baadaran: Baadaran Airport: Baalbek: Baalbek Ayat Airfield: Marjayoun ...
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The Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, Beirut. The main national airport is the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport and is located south of Beirut, in Khaldeh. [5] Opened in 1954, the airport was renovated in 1977, and the present runways were rehabilitated between 1982 and 1984. [5]
After the formation of the air force, the Beirut Air Base was established in 1950. During the early years, Rayak was the main air base; however, the air force wanted to establish another air base close to the capital and after studying most of the areas around Beirut, it was concluded that the new site for the Beirut International airport in Khalde was best fit.
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 was an international commercial flight scheduled from Beirut to Addis Ababa that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Rafic Hariri International Airport on 25 January 2010, killing all 90 people on board.
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t / ⓘ, bay-ROOT; [4] Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, [5] which makes it the fourth-largest city in the Levant region and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.