What is the procedure if an El Al flight has to land in a Muslim country that doesn't recognize Israel?

Suppose an El Al flight suddenly encounters engine trouble over the Indian Ocean and is too far away from India to make an emergency landing--the only options are Somalia, Yemen, or Oman. In such a scenario are personnel at the airport obligated to give any assistance? Do you think in the case of Somalia or Yemen, the government would try to hold the Israeli passengers as hostages?

?2011-01-04T11:01:41Z

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Let's look back in history to see what happened in similar situations. In 1950 many Israeli planes landed in Yemen with full cooperation from the Yemeni Imam then to transfer 49,000 Yemeni Jews to Israel. If this happens today in Somalia, likely the plane will be protected by the Somali government. Likely this will be the case no matter which Arab country it lands in. However, if it lands in Somali pirates controlled areas, then mostly a ransom will be asked for the plane's return.

Now what would happen if an Arab planes gets lost and flies in Israeli controlled air space. We have an example in history. Israel shot down a Libyan civilian airplane over the Sinai in 1973 killing 108 civilians on board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114

?2011-01-04T02:29:58Z

I think the procedure will simply be: save face.

Not maintaining generally accepted human morality would make such a country look really bad in the eyes of the world. So they just have to.

It is one thing to battle your enemy with words, but such an act would stand equal to a declaration of war.

DAN DAN2011-01-04T04:57:25Z

Depends on :
Is this country in a state of war with Israel?
Does it carry any Army personnel?
Does it carry any military equipment?
If yes, the hosting country will send the passengers to some other country and keep the plane, the shipment and army personnel

If not in a state of war then the plane will be sent back with passengers to Israel

?2016-12-24T17:12:50Z

First, the Jews had no longer been pushed out of Israel; there grow to be an Arab circulate there, contemporaneous with Hitler and allied with him, tochronic all Jews out of the British Mandate of Palestine, because it grow to be then. yet this grow to be no longer fullyyt effectual, and Hitler lost the conflict. As for why Israel belongs to the Jews, properly, it grow to be given to Abraham and his descendants; and God reported he might bless people who bless the Jews, and curse people who curse the Jews. it fairly is a minimum of as stable a declare to the land as that of the Arab Palestinians, who declare that it belongs to them because of the fact it grow to be as quickly as ruled by employing Muslims (under the Ottoman Empire) and for this reason could consistently be ruled by employing Muslims.

Daniel2017-04-19T14:38:47Z

Everyone Dies™

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