Date: | Saturday 28 August 1976 |
Time: | |
Type: | Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III |
Owner/operator: | Air France |
Registration: | F-BSGZ |
MSN: | 83 |
Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 20 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Ho Chi Minh City Airport (SGN) -
Vietnam
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Ho Chi Minh City-Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN/VVTS) |
Destination airport: | Bangkok-Don Muang International Airport (BKK/VTBD) |
Narrative:A Vietnamese man hijacked the Caravelle as it was about to depart for Bangkok. He released the passengers and crew and set off two grenades as authorities approached the aircraft to apprehend him. The hijacker was killed by the explosion and the aircraft sustained irreparable damage.
Sources:
Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Bangkok International Airport (BKK); December 1975
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