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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.
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]
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]
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 7 December 1981, an LAA flight from Zürich to Tripoli was hijacked by three persons who thus wanted to press prisoners free. The Boeing 727 was flown to Beirut, were the perpetrators surrendered. [131] On 20 February 1983, Flight 484 was hijacked en route a flight from Sabha to Benghazi. The two hijackers forced the 727 (registered 5A-DII ...
Major armed factions remained visible on the streets of Libya's capital Tripoli on Thursday after the Government of National Unity said they had agreed to withdraw from checkpoints and stop ...
Damascus International Airport (Arabic: مَطَار دِمَشْق الدَّوْلِيّ, romanized: Maṭār Dimašq ad-Duwaliyy) (IATA: DAM, ICAO: OSDI) is the international airport of Damascus, the capital of Syria. Inaugurated in the mid-1970s, it also was the country's busiest airport.