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Hong Kong Airlines Flight 162: After the March 21, 2013, flight to Hong Kong had been waiting on the tarmac at Hainan Island's Sanya Phoenix International Airport for six hours, an elderly passenger began to angrily berate and attack a flight attendant, to applause from some of the passengers. Another passenger ended the attack by calming the ...
All Nippon Airways Flight 857 was a scheduled domestic flight from Tokyo Haneda Airport to Hakodate Airport that was hijacked by a lone individual on June 21, 1995. The aircraft was boarded by police the next morning following an over-night standoff, in the first instance where force was used to respond to an aircraft hijacking in Japan, led by the Hokkaido Prefectural Police with support from ...
Commercial passenger airliners and cargo aircraft have been the subject of plots or attacks by bombs and fire since near the start of air travel. Many early bombings were suicides or schemes for insurance money, but in the latter part of the 20th century, assassination and political and religious militant terrorism became the dominant motive for attacking large jets.
Although the aircraft was repaired in June and July 1978, it was lost in 1985 in the crash of JAL 123 (The worst single-aircraft air disaster) . [35] On 23 November 1979, a Japan Air Lines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 was hijacked shortly after takeoff from Osaka by a male passenger. He used a plastic knife and a bottle opener and demanded to be ...
The hijack lasted for more than 60 hours and was one of the lengthiest airline hijackings at the time (in time) and the longest in distance (22,750 km) [105] July 20, 1973: Japan Airlines Flight 404; On October 18, 1973, Danielle Cravenne, the second wife of French film producer Georges Cravenne, was shot dead by a police sniper at Marignane ...
Passengers on board the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 that suffered a terrifying midair blowout in January have received a letter from the FBI saying they may be victims “of a crime.”
United Airlines operates 78 and Alaska Airlines operates 65 of the Boeing 737 Max 9 models. At least 11 carriers use it worldwide, according to Flightradar 24, though not all of them operate in ...
The incident occurred aboard a Boeing 747 operated by Japan Air Lines. The registration number of the aircraft is not known. At the time of the incident, Japan Air Lines had both the 747-100 and the 747-200B in their long-distance fleet. [1] The aircraft was carrying 344 passengers and 20 crew members. [2]