Hijacking description
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 19 JUL 1960 |
| Type: | Lockheed L-188 Electra |
| Operator: | Trans Australia Airlines - TAA |
| Registration: | registration unknown |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 43 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Minor |
| Location: | Brisbane International Airport, QLD (BNE) (Australia) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Sydney (unknown airport), NSW, Australia |
| Brisbane International Airport, QLD (BNE/YBBN), Australia |
A man pulled out a sawed off rifle and asked demanded to be flown to Singapore. The first officer armed himself with a fire hatchet, came back to the passenger cabin and smashed the hijacked across the wrist. The rifle discharged sending a bullet through the plane's ceiling. After the man had been
overpowered two sticks of dynamite were found under his seat
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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.
