Criminal Occurrence description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 25 JUL 1957 |
| Type: | Convair CV-240-1 |
| Operator: | Western Air Lines |
| Registration: | N8406H |
| C/n / msn: | 27 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 13 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 16 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | Repaired |
| Location: | over Daggett, CA (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Las Vegas Airport, NV, United States of America |
| Los Angeles International Airport, CA (LAX/KLAX), United States of America |
About 45 minutes after takeoff, at the cruising altitude of 7500 feet, an explosion occurred in the lavatory. A passengers had detonated a charge of dynamite, causing hole in the fuselage, through which he was blown out. A safe landing was carried out 17 minutes after the occurrence at George Air Force Base.
Sources:
» Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
