ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 330029
Date: | Saturday 1 December 1973 |
Time: | |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62CF |
Owner/operator: | Swissair |
Registration: | HB-IDK |
MSN: | 46078/475 |
Year of manufacture: | 1969 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 160 |
Aircraft damage: | None |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA) -
Switzerland
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH) |
Destination airport: | Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA/LSGG) |
Confidence Rating: | |
Narrative:Shortly before landing at Genève-Cointrin Airport, Switzerland, the aircraft was hijacked by an 18-year old male passenger.
He demanded to be flown to New York to address the United Nations about the famine in African Sahel countries as well as $50 million.
After releasing the passengers and most of the crew, police officers boarded the aircraft and arrested the hijacker.
The aircraft operated on a flight from Zürich to Monrovia via Genève and Abidjan.
Sources:
La Liberté, 3 Dec. 1973 Revision history:
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