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METEROLOGICAL INFORMATION
At the time of the accident, the weather at the airport was clear. The surface observations at Riyadh were as follows:
1800, surface aviation observation: clear,
wind 3600 at 6 knots, ceiling and visibility
O.K., temperature 35. Centigrade, dew point
6 Centigrade, altimeter 1007 millibars.
CONTENT
On 19 August 1980, Lockheed L-IOll,HZ-ARK, owned and operated by Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) departed Karachi, Pakistan.It was operating as Saudia Flight.It enroute to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a scheduled
intermediate stop at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Karachi to Riyadh was uneventful. The aircraft landed at Riyadh at 1606
After departure, it was cleared to Jeddah via green airways number 53, to cruise at an assigned altitudete
35,000 feet.The estimated arrival time in Jeddah was
19:20. The initial climb toward Jeddah was uneventful until
18:14:54, 6:54 minutes after takeoff, when the flight crew was
alerted by both visual and aural warnings indicating smoke in
the aft cargo compartment.
The captain decided to return to Riyadh. During the return flight, the flight attendants attempted to fight the fire, which had burned through the cabin floor, with available handheld extinguishers. The aircraft landed back at Riyadh some 20 minutes later, and did not make an emergency stop, but instead taxied off the runway to a taxiway. It was several minutes after stopping the airplane on the taxiway before the engines were shut down. Following the landing, and prior to initiation of an evacuation, all of the occupants were incapacitated by the smoke and fire inside the airplane. An evacuation was never initiated. All 301 passengers and crew perished in the fire.