26
Mar
McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62H – I-DIWW
While en route the hijackers took pistols out of a candy box and demanded to be flown to Havana, Cuba, so they could present an appeal ...
26
Mar
Boeing 727-200 –
While en route to Tripoli, a hijacker brandished a pistol and ordered the aircraft to be flown to a non-Arab country. After being denie...
26
Mar
Boeing 727 –
At 22:38 hours a male passenger commandeered United flight 739 to return to Portland Airport, Oregon. He held a package which he claime...
26
Mar
Hawker Siddeley HS-748-260 Srs. 2A – FAC-1101
The HS-748 was destroyed when it crashed into a Bogot suburb, shortly after takeoff. The sole person on board was killed, along with t...
26
Mar
Boeing 727 –
A 24-year old passengers demanded to be taken to Cuba. He claimed a bomb was hidden in his cassette player. He was subdued by the capta...
26
Mar
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 – EC-BIT
Brandishing machine guns, three Spanish Foreign Legion deserters drove a stolen vehicle onto the air operations area at Fuerteventura I...
26
Mar
Fokker F-27 Friendship –
Carrying a knife and what later proved to be a toy pistol, a hijacker commandeered the aircraft. He claimed he had a bomb and two accom...
26
Mar
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar –
A hijacker went to the front of the aircraft hitting a bottle of rum on various objects including the cockpit door trying to break it H...
26
Mar
Boeing 727-76 – AN-BSQ
Three flight crew members diverted the aircraft to Costa Rica and requested political asylum.
26
Mar
Boeing 727 –
The hijacker knocked on the cockpit door. When it was opened he stepped in stating he had plastic explosives in a jacket pocket and wan...