ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 330851
Date: | Friday 19 March 1971 |
Time: | |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-8-53 |
Owner/operator: | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
Registration: | PH-DCM |
MSN: | 45616/147 |
Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | None |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport (PBM) -
Suriname
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport (PBM/SMJP) |
Destination airport: | Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS/EHAM) |
Narrative:A man, armed with an Uzi submachine gun, took a car at the Zanderij Airport in Suriname and drove to a parked KLM DC-8 jet on the apron. All passengers had just boarded the flight. The armed man went on board and threatened a flight attendant.
Two members of the border police boarded the plane after about an hour and managed to get the hijacker to surrender.
Sources:
De Telegraaf 22-03-1971 Revision history:
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