Date: | Monday 17 April 1972 |
Time: | |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 |
Owner/operator: | Swissair |
Registration: | HB-IFM |
MSN: | 45847/394 |
Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 20 |
Aircraft damage: | None |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Roma-Ciampino Airport (CIA) -
Italy
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA/LSGG) |
Destination airport: | Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO/LIRF) |
Narrative:Swissair flight SR610 departed Genève-Cointrin Airport, Switzerland, at 07:20 hours on a flight to Rome, Italy.
About 07:55, a 30-year-old male passenger entered the cockpit of the DC-9 carrying a cigar box which he claimed was a bomb. He demanded to be flown to Argentina. The pilot diverted to flight to Rome's-Ciampino Airport, where the flight landed at 09:07.
After landing the hijacker descended the ventral stairs in order to speak to the U.S. ambassador. A police officer had posed as the ambassador and arrested the hijacker.
Sources:
L'Unità, 18-4-1972
British Pathé Nouvelliste, 18 April 1972 Revision history:
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