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Inclement weather resulted in poor visibility in Jordan, resulting in a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight requesting and receiving permission to make an unscheduled landing in Ben-Gurion International Airport. The flight carrying 118 Israelis and about 50 foreigners on board, was traveling from Bangkok to Aman when it requested to land in Tel Aviv since visibility in Aman was less than 100 meters.
The Israelis were permitted to get off the flight and the others returned home when visibility permitted, after waiting about an hour.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Photo & Video Credit: Ports Authority spokesman unit)
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What’s the point of this article? Diverted landings occur hundreds, if not thousands, of times across the world, and RJ has regularly scheduled service to TLV, so it’s not as if an airplane from an “enemy” country was permitted to land there. The only question I have is whether or not the Israelis who disembarked where permitted to remain in Israel, or if they had to return to Jordan only to (presumably) take the return flight to TLV.
did I read that correctly? Jordanian Air flight from Bangkok to Aman with 70% of the passengers Israeli??
its much cheaper and a shorter flight to go with Jordanian airways. ELAL has to take a very circuitous route since they don’t have air rights over Arab lands
Anyone who has flown RJA knows that it is actually a very well manageed and efficient airline and does not in any way make yidden or Israelis feel uncomfortable. Their planes are not as elegantly appointed as the Kuwati or Emirates airlines but are more than adequate. As Yankele noted, there are routine connections between Tel Aviv and Aman and the “emergecny” landing was either an emergency or unusual.