Alia Bahauddin Toukan ; 25 December 1948 – 9 February 1977), also known as Alia Al Hussein, was Queen of Jordan as the third wife of King Hussein from their marriage on 24 December 1972 until her death in a helicopter crash in 1977.
Queen Alia in 1976
Queen Alia walking alongside Jordanian Army Chief of Staff Habis Majali.
Queen Alia (left) with her husband following state dinner with Betty and Gerald Ford on 30 March 1976.
Royal Jordanian Airlines, formerly known as Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines, is the flag carrier of Jordan with its head office in the capital, Amman. The airline operates scheduled international services over four continents from its main base at Queen Alia International Airport, with over 500 flights per week and at least 110 daily departures. It joined the Oneworld airline alliance in 2007.
Alia Boeing 707-300 at London Heathrow Airport in 1971. This aircraft was later destroyed in the Kano air disaster.
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar of Alia in the short-lived, experimental early-1980s livery
A Boeing 747-200 of the airline as seen in 1978
An Airbus A319 in oneworld livery