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By Royal Decree: Onboard The Royal Jordanian Wuhan Rescue Flight

Matthew Klint Posted onFebruary 4, 2020November 14, 2023 3 Comments

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By order of King Abdullah II, a Royal Jordanian 787-8 was dispatched to Wuhan, China to rescue Jordanian, Palestinian, and other Arab students and workers.

Before returning to Amman, the aircraft underwent an extensive sterilization process. A team from Jordan accompanied the aircraft to Wuhan and took over two hours to conduct a three-phase sterilization process that included sanitizing:

  • seats
  • lavatories
  • flight deck
  • cargo hold
  • galley
  • air conditioning system

The 4,519 flight, numbered RJ6101, took 11 hours to reach Amman. The extra time was due to avoiding airspace over India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. It left Wuhan at 9:12PM local time on January 31st and arrived in Amman at 2:21AM on February 1st.

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71 passengers were transported onboard. Crew were specially train to quarantine passengers who displayed any signs of sickness. Lavatories were sanitized after each use.

RJ6101 included four pilots, two co-pilots, 12 cabin crew, and an engineer. Medical staff were also onboard.

The special mission was under the command of Captain Carol Rabadi, a senior captain and the first female captain at Royal Jordanian. Rabadi was not forced to pilot this flight. Instead, she and her colleagues accepted the mission by choice:

“I accepted to fly the plane … Imagine that you have a brother or son in this area, can you give him up or leave him.”

On Facebook, Royal Jordanian commended the crew for its successful mission:

“We are proud of our distinguished crew for their great effort and outstanding performance on board the aircraft that carried Jordanians and Arabs from Wuhan to Amman.”

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CONCLUSION

I wish I spoke Arabic, because apparently Captain Rabadi narrated much of the journey, a sort of pilot video trip report. It was brave of the pilots and flight attendants to volunteer for this mission and is just one of many stories of rescue mission we will be reading about in the days to come as nations evacuate their citizens from Wuhan and surrounding cities.

All photos courtesy of Royal Jordanian

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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3 Comments

  1. Andy K Reply
    February 4, 2020 at 12:08 pm

    Gotta love the Jordanians showboating and grandstanding this whole time.

  2. L Lau Reply
    February 4, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    Why would they avoid Indian and Pakistani airspace? Do they have a diplomatic row?

    • Uri Reply
      February 5, 2020 at 12:18 am

      They avoid Irani airspace, which is understandable, and this takes them north, do India and Pakistan are not useful.

      But they seem to avoid Georgia, which I can’t understand.

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