• On 22 August 1972, an Alyemda
Douglas DC-6 was hijacked by three passengers during a scheduled flight from
Beirut,
Lebanon, to
Cairo,
Egypt, in an act of demonstration for a unification of
North Yemen and South Yemen. The pilots were forced to have a fuel stop at
Nicosia,
Cyprus, and continued to
Benghazi,
Libya, where the perpetrators surrendered to local police forces, without having injured anyone of the remaining 49 passengers and six crew. • On 16 or 17 September 1975, an Alyemda
Douglas DC-3 (
registered 7O-ABF) was damaged beyond economic repair in a landing accident at
Beihan Airport, following a scheduled flight from Aden. • On 1 March 1977, an Alyemda
Douglas C-47 (registered 7O-ABF) crashed into the
Red Sea shortly after take-off from
Aden International Airport. All 16 passengers and three crew members that had been on the scheduled domestic flight were killed. • On 26 January 1982, five months before the outbreak of the
First Lebanon War, an Alyemda
Boeing 707-300 cargo aircraft (registered 7O-ACJ) carrying weapons from
Libya to
Lebanon was attacked by an unidentified fighter aircraft upon approaching
Damascus International Airport. The pilots managed to safely land the plane, even though it had received substantial damage. • On 9 May 1982, an Alyemda
de Havilland Canada Dash 7 (registered 7O-ACK) crashed into the sea upon approaching
Aden International Airport following a scheduled flight from
Mukalla. Of the 45 passengers, 21 lost their lives, as well as two out of the four crew members, making it the worst accident in the history of the airline. • On 20 January 1983, three persons hijacked an Alyemda
Boeing 707 during a flight from Aden to
Kuwait City, and forced the pilots to divert to
Djibouti City. At
Djibouti Airport, the perpetrators surrendered. • On 15 August 1985, an Alyemda Boeing 707 (registered 7O-ACO) carrying 65 passengers and 8 crew went temporarily out of control following an
autopilot malfunction caused by water spilled on the panel and subsequent pilot error. The aircraft heavily pitched up and down, causing the death of two passengers and one flight attendant. When the pilots managed to resolve the situation, they carried out an emergency landing at Aden Airport, from where the flight had departed. • On 27 August 1993, an Alyemda
Boeing 737-200 was hijacked during a scheduled domestic flight from
Mukalla to
Al Ghaydah by an armed person who demanded to be taken to either
Kuwait or
Oman. The pilots continued to
Al Ghaydah Airport instead, where all passengers could leave, allowing police forces to storm the plane and arrest the perpetrator. • On 14 September 1994, a hijacking attempt occurred on board another Alyemda Boeing 737-200 on a flight from Aden to
Sana'a. ==References==