From a very reliable source in BEY and this after the official Israeli air blockade was lifted, MEA was the first airline to touchdown, and it made all sense being the country flag carrier, followed by a Kuwaiti (KU). This is confirmed by this quote from Reuters, The Associated Press, The New York Times among so many others on September 7, 2006.
Signaling the resumption of normal air traffic, a commercial flight by the national carrier Middle East Airlines circled central Beirut three times at 6:04 p.m., four minutes after the embargo was over, in a ceremonial show. The flight, from Paris, then landed at Beirut's airport.
As it taxied down the runway, someone in the cockpit waved a large red-and-white Lebanese flag, with its distinctive green cedar tree emblem, out a window. The landing was followed by that of a Kuwait Airways plane, which also hung a Lebanese flag out its cockpit window.
