Date: | Tuesday 2 February 1971 |
Time: | |
Type: | Fokker F-27 Friendship 100 |
Owner/operator: | Indian Airlines |
Registration: | VT-DMA |
MSN: | 10171 |
Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
Total airframe hrs: | 21091 hours |
Cycles: | 17638 flights |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Lahore Airport (LHE) -
Pakistan
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Srinagar Airport (SXR/VISR) |
Destination airport: | Jammu-Satwari Airport (IXJ/VIJU) |
Narrative:The F-27 Friendship was hijacked on January 30 while flying over Nagrota, India. Two hijackers entered the cockpit, armed with a revolver and a grenade. The Friendship, with 32 on board, was diverted to Lahore, Pakistan.
The hijackers were members of the Jammu and Kashmir National Liberation Front (NLF).
Three days later, both hijackers set the plane afire.
Sources:
Willem Wendt
Indian Airports (Shocking Ground Realities) / By Kishin R. Wadhwaney, 2004
Images:
photo (c) Abbas Ali, Frank Ellemers Collection; Lahore Airport (LHE); February 1971
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