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Three men, Melvin Cale, Louis Moore, and Henry D. Jackson Jr., successfully hijacked a Southern Airways Douglas DC-9 that was scheduled to fly from Memphis, Tennessee, to Miami, Florida, via Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama, and Orlando, Florida. [2] [3] [4] The three were each facing criminal charges for unrelated incidents. [2]
Southern Airways Flight 242 was a flight from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia, with a stop in Huntsville, Alabama.On April 4, 1977, it executed a forced landing on Georgia State Route 381 in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, United States, after suffering hail damage and losing thrust on both engines in a severe thunderstorm.
Southern Airways was a local service carrier, ... Southern Airways Flight 49, a DC-9 en route from Memphis to Miami was hijacked on November 10, 1972, ...
Southern Airways Flight 49 was successfully hijacked by three passengers and forced to fly to Cuba on November 10, 1972. Cuba returned the airplane, crew, passengers, and ransom money to the US and sentenced the hijackers to prison.
A sketch of DB Cooper, the man who hijacked a Boeing plane in 1971 and jumped off with a parachute and $200,000. AP. After her death, ... Southern Living.
Southern Airways Express Flight 246 that was scheduled to take off from Dulles Airport at 12:45 p.m. made an emergency landing in Loudoun County. Small plane makes emergency landing on Virginia ...
The hijacked Indian Airlines Airbus A300 (left) sits parked on the tarmac, at Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan on 26 December 1999 (AFP via Getty Images)
January 30, 1971: 1971 Indian Airlines hijacking, Indian Airlines Fokker F27 on scheduled Srinagar-Jammu flight is hijacked to Lahore by two self-proclaimed Kashmir Separatists. All passengers were released by February 2 and repatriated to India, but the aircraft was blown up, leading to an India-Pakistan air-travel ban, and suspension of ...