ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 331722
Date: | Saturday 2 November 1968 |
Time: | |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-9 |
Owner/operator: | Eastern Air Lines |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 50 |
Aircraft damage: | None |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Birmingham Airport, AL (BHM) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Birmingham Airport, AL (BHM/KBHM) |
Destination airport: | Chicago (unknown airport), IL |
Narrative:The aircraft was hijacked by a 17-year old male. The youth had boarded the flight at Mobile, AL and took out a 16-gauge shot gun which he had taped in pieces inside a suitcase. He went to the flight deck and demanded to be taken to South Vietnam.
The flight crew managed to overpower the hijacker.
Sources:
Chicago Tribune 3 Nov 1968 Revision history:
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