ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 325808
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| Date: | Thursday 21 March 1991 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed C-130H Hercules |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Saudi Air Force - RSAF |
| Registration: | 469 |
| MSN: | 4754 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1977 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 98 / Occupants: 101 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Rash Mishab -
 Saudi Arabia
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Jeddah-King Abdulaziz International Airport (JED/OEJN) |
| Rash Mishab (OERM) |
The Saudi Hercules flew 95 Senegalese soldiers back from pilgrimage to Mecca to their base at Rash Mishab (also referred to as Ras-al-Mishab). The soldiers were based in Saudi Arabia as part of the allied forces in the First Gulf War. Visibility was poor resulting from the clouds of smoke from the oil wells set ablaze in southern Kuwait by Iraqi troops.
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