The burnt-out wreckage of the Saudi Arabian airliner in which all 301 passengers and crew perished when it was engulfed by flames after an emergency landing; at Riyadh Airport in Saudi Arabia. The fire, which burnt away most of the fuselage roof, started soon after the plane took off for Mecca. It was caused by two small gas stoves, the type used by Muslim pilgrims when camping near Mecca. The passengers were mostly Pakistanis- and Arabian Muslims. Gas stoves have been the cause of fires on pilgrimage planes before.
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Press, 28 August 1980, Page 6
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89The burnt-out wreckage of the Saudi Arabian airliner in which all 301 passengers and crew perished when it was engulfed by flames after an emergency landing; at Riyadh Airport in Saudi Arabia. The fire, which burnt away most of the fuselage roof, started soon after the plane took off for Mecca. It was caused by two small gas stoves, the type used by Muslim pilgrims when camping near Mecca. The passengers were mostly Pakistanis- and Arabian Muslims. Gas stoves have been the cause of fires on pilgrimage planes before. Press, 28 August 1980, Page 6
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