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The aircraft involved in the accident was a 2 year old Boeing 707-3D3C, JY-ADO, owned by Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines, operating on behalf of Nigeria Airways.It first flew in 1971 and was powered by 4 Pratt and Whitney JT3D engines.
0–9. 1973 Kano Nigeria Airways Boeing 707 crash. 1975 Agadir Royal Air Maroc Boeing 707 crash.
JY-ADU, the aircraft involved in the accident, seen in 1977. Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 was a scheduled passenger flight from Queen Alia International Airport, Jordan, to Seeb International Airport, Muscat, Oman, via Doha International Airport in Qatar. On 14 March 1979 it was being operated by a Boeing 727-2D3 jet airliner registered in ...
April 12, 1980: Transbrasil Flight 303, a 727-100C, crashed in Florianópolis, Brazil. 55 of the 58 people aboard died. [ 37][ 38] April 25, 1980: Dan-Air Flight 1008, a 727-100 crashed in Tenerife. All 146 passengers and crew on board died when the aircraft hit terrain while circling.
August 3: A chartered Royal Jordanian Airlines 707-321C crashed into a mountain while preparing to land at Agadir-Inezgane Airport. All 188 passengers and crew on board were killed. The Agadir air disaster has the highest death toll of any crash involving a 707. [40]
On 17 April 1957, a twin-engined Vickers Valetta C.1 transport aircraft, serial number VW832, of 84 Squadron, Royal Air Force crashed and was destroyed after departing from Aqaba Airport in Jordan following wing failure due to turbulence. The crash is the deadliest air disaster in the history of Jordan. [1]
The 707, owned by Jordanian World Airways, a subsidiary of Alia, was chartered by the national airline of Morocco, Royal Air Maroc, to fly 181 Moroccan workers and their families from France home for the holidays. [2] It was the early hours of morning when the aircraft approached Agadir.
July 29, 2024 at 10:49 AM. (Reuters) -Jordan's flag carrier Royal Jordanian has suspended flights to Beirut on Monday and Tuesday, Jordanian Television reported, citing a statement from the ...