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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]
Alia Bahauddin Toukan (Arabic: علياء بهاء الدين طوقان, romanized: 'Āliyā' Bahāʾ ud-Dīn Ṭūqān; 25 December 1948 – 9 February 1977), also known as Alia Al Hussein (Arabic: علياء الحسين), [1] was Queen of Jordan as the third wife of King Hussein from their marriage on 24 December 1972 until her death in a helicopter crash in 1977.
The crash occurred about 50 nautical miles west of Cephalonia, Greece. [2]: 1 After stopping for 68 minutes in Athens, it departed for Rome. About 30 minutes after takeoff, the plane crashed into the Ionian Sea. The out-of-control aircraft was observed by crew on the flight deck of Pan Am Flight 110. They watched the aircraft execute a steep ...
Abir Muhaisen (Arabic: عبير محيسن; born 1973) was adopted by King Hussein of Jordan and his third wife, Queen Alia, after Muhaisen's biological mother was killed in a plane crash at a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan in 1976. Muhaisen was educated in the United States.
UPDATE: A GoFundMe has been set up for the Santillian family who lost their son Abimael and his friend Perez. The funds will go directly to the family for funeral costs. ... 2 Palestine men killed ...
Most Palestinian ancestors came to Jordan as Palestinian refugees between 1947 and 1967. [3] Today, most Palestinians and their descendants in Jordan are naturalized, making Jordan the only Arab country to fully integrate the Palestinian refugees of 1948, as the West Bank was annexed and held by Jordan between 1948 and 1967. [4]
On Sunday, 179 people were killed as a plane touched down in South Korea, making it the deadliest plane crash in South Korea's history. Two of the six Jeju Air crew members are the only survivors ...
Bereaved families of the deadly plane crash in South Korea that killed 179 people have urged officials to recover the bodies of their loved ones. The Boeing 737-800, operated by Jeju Air, skidded ...