Muhammad Al Shaalan

Lieutenant General Muhammad bin Ahmed al-Shaalan (محمد بن أحمد بن عبدالرحمن الشعلان; died June 2015) was a Saudi Arab military officer and commander of the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) from 2014 up until his death in London. Al-Shaalan was initially reported to have died in a heart attack outside the country by the Saudi Ministry of Defense. But during the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war. In early June 2015, several Scud missiles were fired by the Houthis from Yemen and hit King Khalid Air Base, which serves as the center of the Saudi bombing campaign against them, and the Shia Houthis militia claimed he was killed in the missile attack.