Kamil Sindi (January 3, 1932 – June 26, 2017) (

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Biography

Kamil Sindi joined the civil aviation department, at Jeddah airport when he was only 17. He worked there until he became the assistant of General Ibrahim Al-Tasan, who was in charge of the Air Force, civil aviation and the airlines at that time. He later was chosen to be the Director General of Saudi Arabian Airlines in 1967. During his days at the airline, he took it from a small company with a few

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s to an airline with a large fleet that included

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and Lockheed jets; and from an airline that had a few local destinations to an airline with large network of destinations in the

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and

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. In 1979 he became the Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation for Civil aviation. He retired in 1983 due to health problems.

Death

On June 26, 2017 Kamil Sindi died in Jeddah at the age of 84 and was buried in Al Ma'la cemetery in

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