Eyewitness report from passenger on TW741:
"September 7: Captive in Jordan
Night was over soon, as dawn arrived at about 4:45 AM. The sun rose on an incredible scene: In a vast, silent void, on a stretch of parched, yellow-brown sand with an occasional pack of camels meandering by, sat two giant airplanes. Ours and Swiss Air 100, which terrorists had hijacked the same day as it flew from Zurich en route to New York. They had landed on the desert floor in the Zarqa province, about thirty-five miles northeast of Amman. The landing strip - mud flats, actually, that harden and crack under the searing summer sun - was known to outsiders as Dawson Field and to local Arabs as Ga Khanna. The PFLP now called it Matar ath-Thawra, Revolution Airport."
Google Maps
"Qa' Khanna (Qa' Hanna):
This is a seasonal playa lake elongated from NW-SE and covering 3,000 hectares, located 60 km ENE of Amman. It is some 15 km long and up to 5 km wide, with muddy sediments forming mudflats and some nearby saline marshes."