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Yemeni Airlines civilian plane safely lands in Sana'a, despite Sunday p.m. US bombings
2025-04-22
[HodhodYemenNews] A Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i Airlines plane was exposed to significant risks as it approached Sana’a International Airport on Sunday evening, coinciding with Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s carried out by US warplanes targeting several areas in the capital, Sanaa.

US bombers launched intensive airstrikes on Sunday evening, targeting the Farwah neighborhood and a popular market in the Shu’ub district, resulting in 43 deaths and injuries, according to statements by the Health Ministry.

The airstrikes also targeted the Attan area and the cleaning program project in the Asr area.

Despite the air strikes, the Yemeni Airlines plane coming from the Jordanian capital, Amman, managed to safely land at Sana’a International Airport. There were more than 300 passengers on board, most of them women and kiddies.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  All means of transport in or out

Anti-runway penetration bomb

Seemingly, destruction of the runway resource is strategically undesirable.
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-04-22 10:49  

#1  Why is Sana’a International Airport still in operation? All means of transport in or out of Houthiland should have been rendered impossible a long time ago.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2025-04-22 09:01  

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