ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 331389
| Date: | Saturday 6 September 1969 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | TAME Ecuador |
| Registration: | FAE4341 |
| MSN: | 4341 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Santiago-Antonio Maceo Airport (SCU) -
 Cuba
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Quito-Mariscal Sucre Airport (UIO/SEQU) |
Twelve men and a woman, some of them armed with machine guns, hijacked two TAME Ecuador C-47 planes. The hijackers shot and killed one crewman and wounded another. Both aircraft landed at Tumaco (TCO), Colombia for refueling. One airplane was left behind as the hijackers continued to Panama City-Tocumen Airport (PTY). After a 31-minute refueling stop the C-47 continued to Kingston (KIN), Jamaica. The plane left Kingston at 21:00 after a 71-minute refueling stop. The flight finally landed at Cuba.
The hijackers told passengers that the hijacking was in retaliation for the deaths of several students in May 1969 during anti-government riots at the University
of Guayaquil in Ecuador.
Sources:
Daily Review (8 SEP 1969)
El Tiempo - 7 Sep 1969
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