sentences:  His brother Izzat had been a Brigadier General and director of the Jordanian Royal Medical Services.His younger brother Sameer had joined a few years earlier and was a Captain for the Royal Jordanian Air Force, before his death in a fighter jet crash while training in the United States in 1967
  
  Samkari attended Istanbul Technical University(1959–1965) where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering.He then worked on an irrigation project north of Jordan where he witnessed an aerial battle between Israeli and Syrian fighter jets in the 6 day war in 1967.