Air Crash Investigation -Mystery of Saudia Flight 163 -SV 163

Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled routine Saudia passenger flight which caught fire in the aft cargo hold after takeoff from Riyadh International Airport (now the Riyadh Air Base) en route to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 19 August 1980. All 287 passengers and 14 crew on board the Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar (registration HZ-AHK) died from smoke inhalation after the aircraft made a successful emergency landing at Riyadh. Special thanks to sim61642 for providing ARABIC Subtitles.