Date: | Sunday 13 September 1970 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas DC-8-53 |
Owner/operator: | Swissair |
Registration: | HB-IDD |
MSN: | 45656/191 |
Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D- |
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: | Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH) |
Destination airport: | New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) |
Narrative:The DC-8 carrying 143 passengers and 12 crewmembers was hijacked after leaving Zürich on September 6. The plane was then flown to Zerqa, a military airfield 20 miles North of Amman. Hijackers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine released the hostages and blew up the plane September 13.
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photo (c) RuthAS; Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH); 02 August 1965; (CC:by)
photo (c) ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Swissair; Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH); 1964; (CC:by-sa)
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