Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 300 accident
Boeing 747 300 · Accident
From King Khalid International Airport (OERK) to Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport (OEMA)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA11WA033
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Boeing 747 300
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 747
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- HZ-AIS
- Operator
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From King Khalid International Airport (OERK), RiyadhTo Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport (OEMA), Madinah
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Madinah, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On February 16, 2011, a Saudi Arabian Airlines, Boeing 747-300, registration HZ-AIS, exited the runway at taxiway B and entered the sandy area after landing on runway 17 at Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport (OEMA), Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. There were no injuries to the 260 passengers and 17 crewmembers onboard, but the airplane was substantially damaged. The flight was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from King Khaled International Airport (OERK), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The investigation is being conducted by the General Authority of Civil Aviation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The NTSB has appointed an Accredited Representative to assist the investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Manufacture and Design of the airplane.
All requests for information should be directed to:
General Authority of Civil Aviation Safety Department P.O. Box 887, Jeddah, 21421 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Phone: +966-2-685-5509
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DCA11WA033
- Event ID
- 20110317X95254
- Case number
- DCA11WA033
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 2ec3218488727a7a48629bd8f5c9290f7ea8f294e022ecb25caa82223c4b8ab5; retrieved 2026-09-15T15:55:31.589Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: destination. Narrative states landing at Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport (OEMA), Madinah; OMEL is not the Madinah airport code.