I was flying over Saudia Arabia at the time and copied the MayDay call. We waited a minute and notified Saudi ATC.
Saudi ATC looked for clarification from other aircraft about 5 minutes later. Amazingly, some local airlines had copied the Mayday but failed to report it!
We assumed the crew may have ejected but about 10 minutes after the initial Mayday we copied a second. This time the aircraft was overhead Bagdad at 8000' requesting and emergency landing.
Glad all is well.