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March 8, 1996 – A Boeing 727 of Cyprus Turkish Airlines on a flight from Nicosia to Istanbul was hijacked by Ramazan Aydın to Munich, West Germany.; February 24, 1998 – Turkish Airlines aircraft Gaziantep of type RJ 100 bound for Ankara from Adana with 63 passengers and 5 crew on board was hijacked by Mehmet Dağ to Diyarbakır.
July 24, 1961: An Eastern Air Lines airplane, performing Eastern Flight 202, was hijacked during a flight between Miami, Florida, and Dallas, Texas. The plane was flown to Cuba, and all occupants were allowed to return to the United States. [35] Among the passengers were world champion boxer Luis Manuel Rodriguez, along with his training staff ...
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2806 was a terrorist act carried out by Chechen terrorists from March 15 to March 16, 2001. During the incident, a Tu-154M airliner of Vnukovo Airlines performing flight VKO-2806 from Istanbul to Moscow was hijacked. The hijacked plane landed at Medina airport (Saudi Arabia). The aircraft was freed following a special ...
A 50-year-old Miami native is suspected of stealing the plane from a Northern California airport before putting it down on a beach 25 miles away, authorities said.
A man was metal-detecting on a beach in St Augustine, Florida, when a plane made an emergency landing just ahead of him on November 14.Joseph Cook recorded this video and originally posted it to ...
Turkish Airlines Flight 6491; T. 1959 Gatwick Turkish Airlines Viscount crash; 1972 Adana Turkish Airlines DC-9 crash; 1962 Taurus Mountains Turkish Airlines F-27 crash;
In a statement, the FAA said the flight "landed safely at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York around 6 a.m. local time on Wednesday, October 9, after the one of the pilots suffered a ...
One notable incident in 2006 was the hijacking of Turkish Airlines Flight 1476, flying from Tirana to Istanbul, which was seized by a man named Hakan Ekinci. The aircraft, with 107 passengers and 6 crew, made distress calls to air traffic control and the plane was escorted by military aircraft before landing safely at Brindisi , Italy.