 The airline entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people evacuated by a civil airliner . Over 111 @,@ 000 people were evacuated from Amman to Mumbai , a distance of 4 @,@ 117 kilometres ( 2 @,@ 558 mi ) , by operating 488 flights from 13 August to 11 October 1990 – lasting 59 days . The operation was carried out during Persian Gulf War to evacuate Indian expatriates from Kuwait and Iraq . 
