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Iraqi Airways Company (Arabic: الخطوط الجوية العراقية, romanized: al-Xuṭūṭ al-Jawwiyyah al-ʿIrāqiyyah), operating as Iraqi Airways, [1] is the national carrier of Iraq, headquartered on the grounds of Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad. [2] [3] It is the second oldest airline in the Middle East.
Iraqi Airways was founded in 1945 and is a member of the Arab Air Carriers' Organization. It operated its first flight on 29 January 1946. It has since expanded into a global airline covering a wide network of destinations in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America prior to the 1980–88 Iran–Iraq War as and the 1990 Iraqi invasion of ...
During the Gulf War, two Iraqi Airways Tupolev Tu-124Vs parked on the ground were destroyed by U.S. bombs. [citation needed] In June 2000, two Saudi former military officers boarded a plane bound for London and diverted it to Baghdad. They wanted to claim asylum in Iraq, but Iraqi authorities later deported them to Saudi Arabia. [41]
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Iraqi Airways Flight 163 was a Boeing 737-270C, registered YI-AGJ, that was hijacked in 1986. On 25 December 1986, en route from Baghdad 's Saddam International Airport to Amman , Jordan , Flight 163 was hijacked by four men.
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