ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 331003
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| Date: | Saturday 12 September 1970 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vickers Super VC10-1151 |
| Owner/operator: | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC |
| Registration: | G-ASGN |
| MSN: | 864 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Conway 550 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Zerqa RAF Station (Dawson's Field) -
 Jordan
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Bahrain International Airport (BAH/OBBI) |
| Beirut International Airport (BEY/OLBA) |
BOAC Flight 775 was hijacked after leaving Bahrain International Airport (BAH) for Beirut International Airport (BEY), Lebanon on September 9, 1970. The aircraft landed at Beirut and was then flown to an abandoned former RAF station at Zerqa, some 20 miles North of Amman. Hijackers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine released the hostages and blew up the plane September 12. They wanted to influence the British government to free Leila Khaled, the female hijacker who was overpowered during an attempted hijacking on September 6.
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