| Date: | Monday 23 July 1979 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing 707-327C |
| Owner/operator: | Trans Mediterranean Airways - TMA |
| Registration: | OD-AFX |
| MSN: | 19107/507 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1966 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Beirut International Airport (BEY) -
 Lebanon
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Beirut International Airport (BEY/OLBA) |
| Beirut International Airport (BEY/OLBA) |
The aircraft departed Beirut on a training flight for the promotion of four first officers to captains. Two touch-and-goes were performed, when after the third touchdown the aircraft yawed abruptly to the right, then to the left and to the right again. The aircraft stalled in a high nose-up attitude, the right wing struck the ground 12 m to the right of Taxiway B3. The plane crashed and came to rest inverted across Taxiway F.
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| 16 October 1973 | OD-AFX | Trans Mediterranean Airways - TMA | 0 | Bombay-Santacruz Airport (BOM) |  |
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Location
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photo (c) Pol van Damme, via Werner Fischdick; Oostende Airport (OST); February 1979
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