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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]
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.
A new documentary explores a theory that a fifth plane was set to be hijacked on September 11, 2001. ... Tom Manello went through his pre-flight checks in the early morning of 11 September, 2001 ...
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 ...
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The four young men responsible for the 1993 Nigerian Airways hijack were Richard Ogunderu, 19, and Kabir Adenuga, Benneth Oluwadaisi and Kenny Rasaq-Lawal, who were all in their early 20s.