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Sea Plane- Miss Macao: 26 killed
Miss Macao, a seaplane, was hijacked in an attempted robbery and then crashed into the Pearl River Delta. The crash killed 25 of the 26 passengers and crew. The lead hijacker was the only survivor. -
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Aircraft hijackings
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World’s first triple aircraft hijack
Three Douglas DC-3s from Czechoslovakia were simultaneously hijacked by former Czech Royal Air Force pilots seeking asylum. All three planes landed at the US Air Force Base at Erding, West Germany. 26 of 85 passengers stayed in West Germany to escape from the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. This was the world’s first triple aircraft hijack and the first escape from Czechoslovakia where the aircrew themselves hijacked the aircraft. -
44 passengers , 36 hours
The Panair do Brasil Lockheed L-049/149 Constellation registration PP-PCR operating flight 246 en route from Rio de Janeiro - Santos Dumont to Belém, with 44 passengers and crew aboard, was seized and hijacked by officers of the Brazilian Air Force and made to land at Aragarças, Goiás. Their intention was to use the aircraft in a bombing of Government buildings in Rio de Janeiro, starting thus a revolt against President Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira. The revolt faded after 36 hours and the ai -
First US Airline flight hijack
First US Airline flight hijacked to Cuba. A National Airlines Convair 440 flight from Marathon, Florida to Key West was hijacked by a man carrying a knife and a gun who demanded the flight divert to Havana. The aircraft, piloted by Captain Francis X. Riley, was thought to be lost at sea for several hours before authorities learned it had been hijacked. -
Condors hijack the plane with 26 passengers
Argentine nationalists, who called themselves 'Condors', hijacked a plane and forced the pilot to fly to Stanley, Falkland Islands. The 26 passengers were then allowed to disembark and sent to lodge with local families, as the island had no hotel. -
El Al Flight 426 hijacked with 51 passengers
To date, the only successful El Al hijacking attempt, as three members of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked El Al Flight 426 from Rome to Tel Aviv with 51 passengers including three hijackers. Diverting to Algiers, the negotiations extended over forty days. Both the hijackers and the hostages went free. -
Longest hijacking
TWA Flight 85 en route from Los Angeles to San Francisco was hijacked by 19-year old US Marine Raffaele Minichiello. All passengers were released in Denver. The hijacker, three pilots and a stewardess continued on to JFK airport in New York, where two pilots were added for the overseas flight. The plane refueled in Bangor, Maine and Shannon, Ireland, before continuing to Rome, ItalyCovering 6900 miles, this was the longest hijacking in history. -
Still unknown
A Korean Air Lines YS-11 en route from Gangneung to Seoul-Gimpo was hijacked by a North Korean agent and flown to North Korea. All four crew members and seven of the 46 other passengers (excluding the agent) were held hostage by North Korea; their fate is still unknown. -
33 occupants, no casualities
A Cruzeiro do Sul Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VI R en route from Montevideo to Rio de Janeiro, with 33 occupants aboard, was hijacked by 6 persons who demanded to be flown to Cuba. The flight was diverted to Lima, Panama City and arrived in Havana two days later. There were no casualties. -
Dramatic landing of hijacked plane
Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320, carrying passengers from Newark to Boston was hijacked by John J. Divivo armed with a .38 caliber revolver. Captain was shot in his arm by the hijacker. His copilot was shot and collapsed. Despite being fatally wounded, Captain recovered sufficiently to rip the gun from Divivo's hand, and shoot the would-be hijacker before death. Although wounded Divivo arose and began clawing at Captain, attempting to force a crash but the captain flew his aircraft safely -
Braniff Flight 14: 102 passengers
Braniff Flight 14, a Boeing 707 flying from Acapulco to New York with 102 passengers and a crew of 8 was hijacked on approach to a refueling stop in San Antonio, Texas. The ordeal lasted 43 hours across Texas, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and ended happily in Argentina. After a refueling stop in Monterrey, the hijackers released flight attendants and all of the passengers. The remaining crews and flight attendants flew on to Lima. The hijackers demanded to go to Algeria -
Bangladesh Liberation War: Matiur Rahman
A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked during the Bangladesh Liberation War in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the Pilot with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets to join Mukti Bahini.crashed the aircraft into the ground near Thatta after seeing no way to prevent the hijack .Matiur Rahman was decorated with the Bir Sreshtho award by Bangladesh which is their highest honor given. -
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305
A man who became known as D. B. Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727-100 aircraft flying from Portland, OR, to Seattle, WA, received US$200,000 in ransom, and parachuted from the plane. The actual name of the hijacker remains unknown. The hijacker revealed what appeared to be a bomb to a flight attendant and demanded the ransom and parachutes. The flight landed in Seattle, and FBI agents provided the ransom money and parachutes. Cooper then released all passengers. -
Braniff Flight 38,: 94 passengers
Braniff Flight 38, a Boeing 727, was hijacked as it departed Houston, Texas bound for Dallas, Texas. The lone armed hijacker, Billy Gene Hurst, Jr., allowed all 94 passengers to deplane after landing at Dallas Love Field but continued to hold the 7 crewmembers hostage, demanding to fly to South America and asking for US $2 million, parachutes, and jungle survival gear, amongst other items. Law enforcement officers stormed the craft shortly afterwards and arrested Hurst without serious incident. -
Lufthansa Flight 649: 182 Passengers
Lufthansa Flight 649, a Boeing 747-200 from Tokyo to Frankfurt, is hijacked by a group commandeered by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the Delhi-Athens leg and forced to divert to Aden, where all 182 passengers and crew are released on the next day in exchange for a $5 million ransom -
Western Airlines Flight 701: 97 passengers
Western Airlines Flight 701 from Los Angeles to Seattle was hijacked by Willie Roger Holder, a black Vietnam veteran, and Catherine Marie Kerkow. The hijackers claimed they had a bomb in an attache case and demanded $500,000. After allowing all 97 passengers to get off in San Francisco, they flew to Algeria where they were granted political asylum. The Algerian government confiscated and returned $488,000 of the ransom money to US officials. -
1st passengers killed and wounded in a skyjacking
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 was hijacked by two Bulgarian immigrants shortly after take-off from Sacramento, California en route to San Francisco. The hijackers demanded $800,000, two parachutes and to be flown to the Soviet Union. The hijacking ended on the runway in San Francisco when agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation stormed the plane killing both hijackers and one passenger. Two other passengers were wounded. These were the first passengers killed and wounded in a sky -
Hijackers exchanged the passengers for $1 million
Delta Air Lines Flight 841 was hijacked by five members of the Black Liberation Army including the elusive George Wright. The flight was originally from Detroit to Miami. The hijackers exchanged the passengers for $1 million in Miami and forced the plane to fly to Boston, then to Algeria, who returned the plane and cash but released the hijackers. -
Convair aircraft with 32 passengers
Domestic flight of a two-engine Convair aircraft with 32 passengers to Caracas, Venezuela hijacked between Valera and Barquisimeto. 4 hijackers linked to the leftist group "Punto Cero" demanded the release of 79 "political prisoners" from Venezuelan prisons. Diverting the plane via Curacao in the Dutch Antilles and Panama, where three passengers were released, to Mérida, Yucatán and Mexico City, where they issued an ultimatum. -
Mississippi: 247 passengers
A KLM Boeing 747, "Mississippi", was hijacked by 3 young Arabs over Iraqi airspace on a scheduled Amsterdam-Tokyo flight with 247 passengers. After the hijackers threatened to blow up the plane when no country would grant landing permission, the plane landed in Malta. Most of the passengers were released after negotiations with the Maltese PM Dom Mintoff who argued with the hijackers that the plane could not possibly take off with both the passengers and the 27,000 gallons of fuel -
Finnair Flight 405: 44 passenger
Finnair Flight 405 was hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras; the flight was en route from Oulu to Helsinki. He requested a ransom of 675,000 markka, which he received, and as a result he released all 44 passengers on board. Then he ordered the plane to fly him to Amsterdam in the Netherlands and then back to Oulu. He returned home and was arrested there the next day. He served seven years and one month in prison and now lives in Sweden.One of the passengers on board the hijacked plane was singer M -
Airbus A300B4-203 : 176 passengers
A Cruzeiro do Sul Airbus A300B4-203 flight 302 en route from São Luís to Belém-Val de Cães with 176 passengers and crew aboard was hijacked by 3 persons who demanded to be taken to Cuba. The flight reached Camagüey in less than a day. There were no victims -
Boeing 737-200 : 82 passengers
An Air France Boeing 737-200 en route from Frankfurt to Paris with 82 passengers and crew aboard was hijacked by 3 hijackers who demanded to be taken to Tehran. They were Arab protesters against military cooperation between France and Iraq on the Iran-Iraq war context. One steward escaped to the hijacker in Larnaka. The hijacking duration was 48 hours. The hijackers destroyed the aircraft with explosives in front of the TV cameras. There were no victims. -
USAID officials shot dead
Kuwait Airways Flight 221 Lebanese Shi'a hijackers divert a Kuwait Airways flight to Tehran. Two American USAID officials are shot dead and dumped on the tarmac. The plane is taken by Iranian security forces who were dressed as custodial staff -
New Zealand Boeing 747-200: 105 passengers
An aircraft refueller at Nadi International Airport, Fiji, attempted to hijack an Air New Zealand Boeing 747-200 stopping at Nadi en route from Tokyo to Auckland. The hijacker entered the cockpit and held the captain, first officer and flight engineer hostage, demanding that the Timoci Bavadra-led government be restored after they were ousted in a military coup d'état six days earlier. After six hours, the hijacker got distracted. None of the 105 passengers or 24 crew hostage bwere injured -
Kuwait Airways Flight 422 : 111 passengers, 2 dies
Kuwait Airways Flight 422 was hijacked from Bangkok to Kuwait with 111 passengers and crews. 6 - 7 Lebanese men with guns and hand grenades forced the pilot to land in Mashhad, Iran and demanded the release of 17 Shia Muslims guerrillas held in Kuwait. Lasting 16 days and traveling 3,200-miles it is the longest skyjacking to date. 2 passengers were shot dead and dumped on the tarmac in Cyprus. -
VASP Boeing 737-300
A man hijacked a VASP Boeing 737-300 registration PP-SNT operating flight 375 en route from Belo Horizonte-Pampulha to Rio de Janeiro. He wanted to force a crash on the Palácio do Planalto, the official presidential workplace in Brasília. The pilot convinced the hijacker to divert to Goiânia where an emergency landing was made. The hijack ended with 1 victim -
Hemus Air Tu-154 : 150 passengers
Hemus Air Tu-154 aircraft was hijacked by the Palestinian Nadir Abdallah, flying from Beirut to Varna. The hijacker demanded that the aircraft be refuelled and given passage to Oslo, Norway after landing at Varna Airport. All of the 150 passengers were freed at Varna, afterwards the crew continued the flight to Oslo, where the hijacker surrendered and asked for political asylum -
Saudi Arabian Airlines: 105 people
Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 115,flying from Jeddah to London was hijacked en route by two men who claimed they were armed with explosives. The hijackers commandeered the Boeing 777-200 to Baghdad, Iraq, where all 90 passengers and 15 crew members were safely released. The two hijackers, identified as Lieutenant Faisal Naji Hamoud Al-Bilawi and First Lieutenant Ayesh Ali Hussein Al-Fareedi, both Saudi citizens, were arrested and later extradited to Saudi Arabia in 2003. -
Vnukovo Airlines Tu-154
A Vnukovo Airlines Tu-154 flying from Makhachkala to Moscow was hijacked by a man demanding it be diverted to Israel. The plane landed at an Israeli military base where hijacker surrendered. None of 59 people on board were injured -
Vnukovo Airlines Tu-154
Another Vnukovo Airlines Tu-154 flying from Istanbul to Moscow was hijacked by a three Chechens demanding it be diverted to Saudi Arabia. After the plane with 174 people on board landed at Medina the hijacker threatened to blow it up unless it would be refuelled for flying to Afghanistan. The Saudi authorities decided to storm the plane. During the assault 2 people were killed by Saudi police: one of the passengers (Turkish citizen), and the leader of the hijackers. -
World trade centre collapsed 2,996 killed, 6000 injured
American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77, United Airlines Flight 93, were hijacked by Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremists.Flight 11 and 175 were deliberately crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Flight 77 was crashed into the Pentagon and Flight 93 crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after hijackers crashed the plane.Both towers of The World Trade Center collapsed;2996 people killed,over 6000 injured. It led to the War on Terror -
Mauritanie Boeing 737: 87 passengers
An Air Mauritanie Boeing 737 flying from Nouakchott to Las Palmas with 87 passengers on board was hijacked by a man who wanted to fly to Paris, but the plane landed in an air base near Las Palmas and the hijacker, a Moroccan, was arrested -
Turkish Airlines Flight 1754
Turkish Airlines Flight 1754, flying from Oslo to Istanbul, was in Bulgarian airspace when an unsuccessful attempt was made to hijack it. The suspect allegedly said that he had a bomb and that he would blow up the aircraft unless the plane returned to Norway. Some passengers overpowered the hijacker and the flight safely landed at Atatürk International Airport at 9:30 p.m after the pilot notified emergency service. All 60 passengers and seven crew got off the aircraft; the suspect was arrested -
Alitalia Flight 329
An attempt was made to hijack Alitalia Flight 329, en route from Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France to Fiumicino Airport, Rome and divert it to Tripoli International Airport, Libya. The hijacker, reported to be an advisor to the Kazakhstan delegation to UNESCO, was subdued by cabin crew and other passengers. He was arrested and taken into custody after the aircraft made a safe landing at Rome. -
Tianjin Airlines Flight GS7554 : 22 minutes
An attempt was made to hijack Tianjin Airlines Flight GS7554 from Hotan to Ürümqi. Six people tried to hijack the aircraft 10 minutes after take-off. There were 6 police officers on board. Four were in plain clothes, taking the plane for a business trip. The hijackers used aluminium canes with sharpened tips to attack the members of the crew. The police officers and civilians on board subdued the hijackers, all of whom were of Uyghur ethnicity. The plot was foiled and the plane returned to Hotan -
Hijacker co-pilot
co-pilot hijacks planeEthiopian Airlines Flight 702 " departing from Addis Ababa scheduled to arrive in Rome was forced to proceed to Geneva airport", according to the airline. The Boeing 767-300 (ET-AMF) was flying north over Sudan when it changed radio frequency to squawk 7500—which is used in case of hijacking. Nearing Geneva, the pilots communicated with air traffic control to inquire about possibility of hijackers receiving asylum in Switzerland. The hijacker which was the co-pilot was arrested. -
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370
Air Traffic Control officers lost contact with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crews. The Boeing 777-200ER (9M-MRO) was en route to Beijing Capital International Airport from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. As of 25 March 2014, the aircraft is reportedly lost in Indian Ocean and there was no survivor
