| Date: | Saturday 10 April 1965 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Handley Page HPR-7 Herald 207 |
| Owner/operator: | Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines |
| Registration: | JY-ACQ |
| MSN: | 170 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart (series unknown) |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 54 / Occupants: 54 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 22km ENE of Damascus -
 Syria
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Beirut International Airport (BEY/OLBA) |
| Amman-Marka International Airport (ADJ/OJAM) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The Herald had taken off from Beirut at 19:55 for a flight to Amman. The aircraft crashed on a 45-degree slope of a mountain at a height of 4200 feet msl.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The cause of the accident was structural failure of the fuselage in flight."
Sources:
ICAO Circular 88-AN/74 (72-76)
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