Air Crash Daily | 1965 Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines Handley Page Herald [JY-ACQ] crash Aftermath Footage @AirCrashDaily | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
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On ๐๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐น ๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฑ, an Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines Handley Page Herald (Reg. JY-ACQ) was operating a non-scheduled international passenger flight from Beirut to Amman, carrying 50 passengers and 4 crew members.
The plane departed Beirut at 19:55 GMT and was cleared to climb to and maintain FL135 according to the flight plan submitted. At 20:14 the plane reported to Damascus Centre over Dakweh at FL120 climbing to FL135 and estimating Damascus beacon at 20:19. The plane having not reported over that beacon by 20:20, the Damascus Centre controller initiated a series of calls which were not answered by the plane.
At 20:35, a telephone call indicated that a plane flying west to east was seen on fire and had crashed half-way between the Syrian border and Damascus. It was subsequently found that this was the subject plane, and that it had crashed at approximately 20:16 on a 45ยฐ slope of a mountain at a height of 4,200 feet AMSL on a heading of 340ยฐ.
๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ:
"The cause of the accident was structural failure of the fuselage in flight."
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Accident Description: instagram.com/p/Cq4z_JUP5PV/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
On ๐๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐น ๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฑ, an Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines Handley Page Herald (Reg. JY-ACQ) was operating a non-scheduled international passenger flight from Beirut to Amman, carrying 50 passengers and 4 crew members.
The plane departed Beirut at 19:55 GMT and was cleared to climb to and maintain FL135 according to the flight plan submitted. At 20:14 the plane reported to Damascus Centre over Dakweh at FL120 climbing to FL135 and estimating Damascus beacon at 20:19. The plane having not reported over that beacon by 20:20, the Damascus Centre controller initiated a series of calls which were not answered by the plane.
At 20:35, a telephone call indicated that a plane flying west to east was seen on fire and had crashed half-way between the Syrian border and Damascus. It was subsequently found that this was the subject plane, and that it had crashed at approximately 20:16 on a 45ยฐ slope of a mountain at a height of 4,200 feet AMSL on a heading of 340ยฐ.
๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ:
"The cause of the accident was structural failure of the fuselage in flight."