Some air force personnel at Columbus Air Force Base originally trained at the King Faisal Air Academy in which town in Saudi Arabia?
King Faisal Air Academy The King Faisal Air Academy is a military flight school in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Programs include fighter pilot, weapon director, air traffic controller, and information technology training. Training lasts for twenty-seven months. Because most of the Royal Saudi Air Force's equipment is made by the United Kingdom and the United States instruction is in English, and much of the faculty are British. Unlike other officer training schools, graduates of KFAA are trained as both pilots and officers simultaneously and are fully qualified for both flight and command duties upon graduation. Some graduates go on to further training with the United States Air Force at Columbus Air Force Base.
Saudia Flight 163 Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled Saudia passenger flight which caught fire after takeoff from Riyadh International Airport (now the Riyadh Air Base) en route to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 19 August 1980. All 287 passengers and 14 crew on board the Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar (registration HZ-AHK ) died from smoke inhalation after the aircraft made a successful emergency landing at Riyadh.