Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 115
Boeing 777 · Hijacking
From King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah to Heathrow Airport in London
Event
- 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
- Occurrence
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 112
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 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
Boeing 777
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 777
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From King Abdulaziz International Airport in JeddahTo Heathrow Airport in London
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 115 was a Boeing 777 belonging to Saudi Arabian Airlines operating its flight number 115, which departed at half past four in the afternoon on Saturday 15 Rajab 1421 AH, corresponding to 14 October 2000, from King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah to Heathrow Airport in London, before it was hijacked by two of the passengers during the flight and forced to divert to Saddam International Airport in Baghdad. There were 112 people on board the aircraft, of whom 95 were passengers and 17 were members of the aircraft's crew.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Arabic Wikipedia article “الخطوط الجوية السعودية الرحلة 115” (revision 72247188, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Arabic Wikipedia article: الخطوط الجوية السعودية الرحلة 115
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 72247188 · 2025-10-14 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q22929449
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ar Wikipedia article "الخطوط الجوية السعودية الرحلة 115" (page 2950540, revision 72247188), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Arabic Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.