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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 ...
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: Marjayoun Airfield: Dekwaneh Dekwaneh ...
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-Rafic Hariri International Airport is Lebanon's only airport. It has been targeted in the country's civil war, and previous fighting with Israel, including in the last war between Hezbollah ...
A statue of Hariri in Beirut near the assassination site. On 22 June 2005, Beirut International Airport was renamed Rafic Hariri International Airport. [4] Additionally, Beirut General University hospital was renamed Rafiq Hariri Hospital. [4] Rafic Hariri was succeeded by his son Saad Hariri as leader of the Future Party.
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The salvage excavations after 1993 have yielded new insights into the layout and history of this period of Beirut's history. Public architecture included several areas and buildings. [16] Mid-1st-century coins from Berytus bear the head of Tyche, goddess of fortune; [17] on the reverse, the city's symbol appears: a dolphin entwines an anchor.