Princess Basmah Hamzah, born Basmah Bani Ahmad Al-Outom in 1979 in Stratford, Ontario, is a Canadian-born pilot who became a member of the Jordanian royal family through her 2012 marriage to Prince Hamzah bin Hussein. After studying mathematics at the University of Western Ontario she trained as a flight instructor in Amman and Aqaba and served as chief pilot at the Royal Aero Sports Club of Jordan, becoming the first Jordanian woman to earn a basic aerobatics certificate. She met Prince Hamzah at the 2011 Dubai Air Show. In 2021 she was placed under house arrest in Jordan alongside her husband during a widely reported political dispute.
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is the second wife of Hamzah bin Hussein of Jordan.
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née Basmah Bani Ahmad Al-Outom
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She was Jordan's first female pilot to obtain a basic aerobatics certificate.
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First Arab female licensed aerobatic pilot.
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