1972 pan am 747 hijacking

About 45 minutes after the plane departed Manila with 153 passengers and crew aboard for the final leg of its trip to Saigon, a 24-year-old South Vietnamese native, When Captain Vaughn refused to reroute the flight from Saigon to Hanoi, Binh wrote a second note spattered with his own blood. Argüello reportedly threw his sole grenade down the airliner aisle, but it failed to explode, and he was hit over the head with a bottle of Hijackers gained control of the cockpit. "It landed at Dawson's Field in Jordan at 6:45 p.m. local time.When all the non-Israeli and non-Jewish passengers and crew were released, First Officer Horst Jerosch remained as a captive. Posing as a married couple, Argüello and Khaled boarded the plane using "So half an hour (after take off) we had to move.

They had dynamite all over the front and the back of the plane. Pan Am Flight 841 was a commercial passenger flight of a Boeing 747 from San Francisco, California to Saigon, South Vietnam which was hijacked over the South China Sea on 2 July 1972, ostensibly as an act of protest concerning US involvement in the Vietnam War as well as the expulsion from the Unite WikiMili The Free Encyclopedia Pan Am Flight 841 The attempted hijacking oc curred on Pan American World Airways Flight 841, which left San Francisco at midnight. "We were ready for take off in Amsterdam, and the aircraft came to an abrupt stop in the middle of the runway. Binh was also armed with a long knife. The hijacker wanted my father to take the plane to Hanoi and my father flew it on to Saigon while having the cockpit secured by two U.S. Marine passengers.

He says, 'Go down and try to find them in the manifest, because I would like to have a word with them.'

Now we have not only mobilized guards on our planes, but we are developing facilities ... for the purpose of seeing that people who might be potential hijackers do not get on planes with weapons or explosive material.

He gave them a pretty good pat. Pan Am Flight 841 was a commercial passenger flight of a Boeing 747 from San Francisco, California to Saigon, South Vietnam which was hijacked over the South China Sea on 2 July 1972, ostensibly as an act of protest concerning US involvement in the Vietnam War as well as the expulsion from the United States of the South Vietnamese hijacker, a recent graduate of a US university.

"Footage of the plane taking off from Beirut for Dawson's Field is in the Unnamed passengers later recounted their days as hostages. This flight has been taken over by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Unknown speaker 3: "I landed at the airport, we got off, and they told the captain that we had three minutes to evacuate; but I didn't think there were still a couple of people on board when they blew the, they blew the front part of the plane up.

Then the hostess came; she said 'she has two hand grenades,' but they did not open (the cockpit door) and suddenly I was threatening to blow up the plane. They wouldn't believe that I was an American citizen, because they saw my passport that I was in Israel two weeks before. After being informed by intercom that a hijacking was in progress, Captain Uri Bar Lev decided not to accede to their demands:"I decided that we were not going to be hijacked. Instead of the plane flying this way, it dives and everyone who is standing falls down. The hijacker wanted my father to take the plane to Hanoi and my father flew it on to Saigon while having the cockpit secured by two U.S. Marine passengers. The security guy was sitting here ready to jump. The foil-wrapped package actually contained lemons.Binh's friends in the US established a collection in 1974 at the University of Washington library, containing papers about Binh's life and protest activities.On 24 April 1975, after the formal withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam in June 1973,

This was the second instance of mass aircraft hijacking, after an escape from communist Cze… We heard shooting just the same minute and when we crossed the first class, people were shouting but I didn't see who was shooting because it was behind us. I went up to the cockpit, and he says, 'We have two passengers by the name of Diop and Gueye.' They had a Styrofoam container in their groin area where they carried the grenade, and the 25-Cal. About two weeks after the start of the crisis, the remaining hostages were recovered from locations around Amman and exchanged for Leila Khaled and several other PFLP prisoners.

The second note read "This indicates how serious I am about being taken to Hanoi." I was saying 'I will count and if you don't open I will blow up the plane.'"

He was hijacked in 1972 on a flight from Hong Kong to Saigon by a North Vietnamese sympathizer.

"During the crisis, on 11 September President Nixon initiated a program to address the problem of "air piracy", including the immediate launch of a group of 100 federal agents to begin serving as armed The PFLP officially disavowed the tactic of airline hijackings several years later, although several of its members and subgroups continued to hijack aircraft and commit other violent operations.Boeing 747-121 (N750PA), similar to the hijacked plane in PA93.A BOAC Vickers VC10, a similar aircraft to that hijacked So I was screaming 'open the door.' Three aircraft were forced to land at Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip near Zarqa, Jordan, formerly Royal Air Force Station Zerqa, which then became PFLP's 'Revolutionary Airport'.