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June 29 Southeast Airlines Flight 101 is hijacked by one person and diverted to Cuba. [37] July 1 Velasquez Fonseca, born in Cuba, hijacks Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 714, a Boeing 727, from Chicago to Cuba. [33] July 12 Leonard Bendicks hijacks a Cessna 210 from Key West, Florida, to Cuba.
Survivors. 78. Delta Air Lines Flight 1989 was a regularly scheduled flight offering nonstop morning service on September 11, 2001, from Logan International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on a Boeing 767-300ER aircraft. This flight was one of several flights considered as possibly hijacked, but landed safely at Cleveland Hopkins ...
List of notable aircraft hijackings 1910s. 1919 (exact date unknown, possibly between March–July): During the chaotic aftermath of World War I, Hungarian aristocrat and geologist Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás became the first person in history to hijack an airplane [dubious – discuss] in a desperate plot to flee persecution at the hands of the communist regime of the Hungarian ...
Passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight spent the night in a remote military barracks in eastern Canada after a mechanical issue with the plane. Delta passengers stranded for 24 hours in ...
1. Survivors. 146. TWA Flight 847 was a regularly scheduled Trans World Airlines flight from Cairo to San Diego with en route stops in Athens, Rome, Boston, and Los Angeles. [1] On the morning of June 14, 1985, Flight 847 was hijacked soon after take off from Athens. [2] [3] The hijackers demanded the release of 700 Shia Muslims from Israeli ...
A Delta flight landed roughly but safely at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Wednesday without part of its landing gear extended, officials said. The airport said in a tweet that the ...
A Delta flight landed at the Charlotte, N.C., airport Wednesday morning without its front landing gear, grinding to a halt on the runway. Nobody was injured in the emergency landing, the airline said.
TWA Flight 840. TWA Flight 840 was a Trans World Airlines flight from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome, Italy, to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, that was hijacked on 29 August 1969. There were no fatalities although at least two passengers were lightly wounded and the aircraft was significantly damaged.