26
Mar
Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1E – 5B-DAE
Turkey invaded Cyprus on 20 July 1974, after the Cypriot Government had been overthrown by sections of the Cypriot National Guard, led ...
26
Mar
Boeing 727-59 – HK-1337
The Avianca Boeing 727 was hijacked by three passengers, around 20:20 local time, ten minutes after takeoff from Pereira (PEI). The air...
26
Mar
Fairchild C-123K Provider – ST-3
Air America's Provider "ST-3" was struck by hostile fire, probably a 9K32 Strela-2 shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missile (also known a...
26
Mar
Boeing 727 –
A young gunman who brought two hostages with him attempted to hijack an empty Boeing 727. The hijacker was disarmed by an engineer and ...
26
Mar
Douglas C-54A-5-DO (DC-4) – XV-NUM
A hijacker ordered the crew to divert to Dong Hoi, North Vietnam. The pilot told him an intermediate stop at Dong Ha, North Vietnam was...
26
Mar
McDonnell Douglas DC-9 –
A gunman shot and killed an airport security guard at Baltimore/Washington International Airport, MD (BWI). He entered Delta Air Lines ...
26
Mar
Vickers Super VC10-1151 – G-ASGO
VC10 G-ASGO was on the last leg of a Mumbai (Bombay)-Bahrain-Beirut-London flight when it was hijacked over Rhodos by 2 men. The aircra...
26
Mar
Boeing 747SR-46 – JA8117
An 18-year old Japanese man demanding nearly $56 million, most of it in $1,000 bills, to study biology and geology hijacked Japan Air L...
26
Mar
Fokker F-27 Friendship 200 – 5Y-AAC
Two Ethiopian passengers brandished a gun and hijacked the aircraft, apparently protesting against the rule of Ethiopian Emperor Haile ...
26
Mar
Vickers 745D Viscount – HK-1319
A Vickers Viscount passenger plane, operated by Aeropesca Colombia, was hijacked after takeoff from Pasto, Colombia. The airplane depar...