Hassan Hamada
Syrian military officer
Hassan Hamada (Arabic: حسن حمادة; born c. 1968), full name Hassan Mirei al-Hamada (Arabic: حسن ميري آل حمادة،), also spelled as Hammadeh, is the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Syrian Air Force. As a former colonel in the Ba'athist Syrian Air Force who, together with his MiG-21, defected to Jordan on 21 June 2012 during the Syrian civil war. Prior to the fall of the Assad regime, he had served as defense minister in the Syrian Interim Government and chief of staff of the Syrian National Army.
Military service
Before his defection in June 2012, Col. Hassan Hamada served in an airbase in the as-Suwayda Governorate as the head of the Scientific Research group in the 93rd Brigade.
Defection
A Jordanian security source said Hamada flew from al-Dumayr Military Airport northeast of Damascus and landed at King Hussein Air Base at 11 a.m. Syrian state television said communications were lost with his plane at 10:34AM while he was on a training mission near the border with Jordan. Right after he landed, he reportedly removed his Air Force insignia and requested political asylum in Jordan, which the country later granted on 'humanitarian grounds'. There had been other defections and desertions from the Syrian military, but no Syrian Air Force pilots had been known to defect with their aircraft.
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