First plane takes off from Damascus since the fall of Al-Assad

A first plane, since the fall of Bashar al-Assad on December 8, took off on Wednesday from Damascus airport, towards Aleppo, in northern Syria, where the coalition offensive started who took the reins of the country.

Forty-three people, including journalists and administrative staff, were present on board this Airbus from the Syrian company Air.

A few hours before the fall of Damascus, Bashar al-Assad took a plane from Damascus airport to the Russian base at Hmeimim in western Syria.

The Syrian army and its government security forces then deserted the airport, from where no flights had taken off since.

Airport employees painted the three-star flag of Syria’s independence in 1946 on planes of the private company Cham Wings, a symbol of the popular uprising of 2011 against Bashar al-Assad and adopted by the new power.

This flag also replaced the old one in the airport halls.