Accidents and Incidents
- On January 22, 1973, 176 people were killed when an ALIA Boeing 707 was landing at Kano, Nigeria.
- On August 3, 1975, all 188 persons when an ALIA Boeing 707 struck a mountain ridge while making its approach for a landing in Morocco.
- On March 14, 1979, 45 of the 64 persons aboard an ALIA Boeing 727 were killed as a result of a windshear on landing at the Doha Airport in Qatar.
Since the name of the carrier was changed to Royal Jordanian Airlines, the only fatal incident was when a hijacker, seeking political asylum, was killed by the onboard security agent on 5 July 2000, on board a Royal Jordanian Airbus A320 flying from Amman to Damascus.
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