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On the evening of Wednesday, August 2, 1972, at a hurried 10-minute news conference after the DC-8's completion of the 11,500 miles (18,500 km) trip in Atlanta, the captain said he realized the aircraft was being hijacked when he left the cockpit to go to the lavatory and noticed a man aiming a gun at a stewardess.
July 31, 1972: Delta Air Lines Flight 841, a flight from Detroit to Miami, was hijacked to Algiers, Algeria by 8 hijackers. The DC-8 aircraft stopped in Boston to pick up an international navigator. The flight was allowed to return with passengers to the U.S., stopping in Barcelona for refueling. [13] [14]
TWA Flight 841 was a scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, en route to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On the evening of April 4, 1979 while flying over Saginaw , Michigan , the Boeing 727-31 airliner began a sharp, uncommanded roll to the right, and ...
Flight 841 may refer to: Los Angeles Airways Flight 841, helicopter crashed on May 22, 1968; Pan Am Flight 841, Hijacked on 2 July 1972; Delta Air Lines Flight 841, a Detroit-Miami flight hijacked to Algeria on 31 July 1972; TWA Flight 841 (1974), Terrorist suicide bomb in flight on September 8, 1974; TWA Flight 841 (1979), loss of control on ...
George Edward Wright (born March 29, 1943) is a Portuguese citizen of American origin, [1] known for taking part in the hijacking of Delta Air Lines Flight 841.Originally arrested and convicted for murder in 1962 and sentenced to up to 30 years in prison, George Wright escaped from prison in 1970 and hijacked a Delta Air Lines flight in 1972 with a number of accomplices.
Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, kneels at the spot where tradition says Jesus was born.
Passengers on a plane scheduled to depart from Istanbul to Marseille, France, were held up by an unexpected delay: a birth. An unidentified woman onboard a Pegasus Airlines flight went into labor ...
American Airlines Flight 11 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. Mohamed Atta deliberately crashed the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing all 92 people aboard and an unknown number in the building's ...