Afriqiyah Airways
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Afriqiyah Airways is a Libyan state-owned airline based in Tripoli, Libya. It was established in 2001 and operates both domestic and international flights. The airline's main hub is Tripoli Internatio
Afriqiyah Airlines Airbus A330-302
Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A319-100 bearing the airline's former livery
Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320-200 painted in the current livery
5A-ONG, the Airbus A330-200 involved in the crash of Flight 771
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
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Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi was a Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. He was head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines, director of the Centre for
Afriqiyah Airways
…EU. On 20 August 2009, an Air Afriqiyah aircraft (registration 5A-IAY) – the private aircraft of Colonel Gaddafi – flew to Glasgow Airport to collect Abelbasset al-Megrahi (who had been convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and released on compassionate grounds by the Cabinet Secretary for Justice in the Scottish…
al-Megrahi in 1988
Barlinnie Prison, where Megrahi was incarcerated from 2001 to 2005