The aircraft took off at Medina at around 14:25 (UTC), only 30 minutes later the pilots decided to head for Jeddah. After some holdings above the Red Sea, at 17:18 (UTC), the aircraft approached the runway at Jeddah (reaching 825 feet) but went around for another hour of holdings. Around 18:22 (UTC) the aircraft approached a second time but went around again to make the emergency landing just half-an-hour later.
Pictures and a movie from Twitter, flight data from Flightradar24.com:
On 22 May the removal of the aircraft has started by lifting the nose. During the evacuation more than 50 passengers got injured.
This post was published on 21 May 2018 23:02
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