Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled passenger flight of Saudia that caught fire at Riyadh's International Airport (now the Riyadh Air Base) after a flight from Karachi, Pakistan. The fire, on August 19, 1980, killed all 287 passengers and 14 crew on board the Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar, registered HZ-AHK, which had been due to fly on to the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah.
At the time the incident was the second deadliest single aircraft disaster in ...
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Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled passenger flight of Saudia that caught fire at Riyadh's International Airport (now the Riyadh Air Base) after a flight from Karachi, Pakistan. The fire, on August 19, 1980, killed all 287 passengers and 14 crew on board the Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar, registered HZ-AHK, which had been due to fly on to the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah.
At the time the incident was the second deadliest single aircraft disaster in history, after Turkish Airlines Flight 981. It was also the highest death toll of any aviation accident in Saudi Arabia and the highest death toll of any accident involving a Lockheed L-1011 anywhere in the world.
Saudi officials said that most of the passengers consisted of Saudis and Pakistanis. Many of the passengers consisted of Pakistani religious pilgrims. Diplomats in Jeddah said that four Koreans, three Britons, two Thais, and one Irish person boarded the flight. The crew included six Filipinos, three Pakistanis, and one Briton. The...
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