Hijacking description
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 24 MAR 1970 |
| Type: | de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 |
| Operator: | Aerolineas Argentinas |
| Registration: | LV-AHN |
| C/n / msn: | 06408 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 4 Rolls Royce 524 Avon |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 62 |
| Airplane damage: | Unknown |
| Location: | Lima, Cuba (Cuba) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Córdoba-Pajas Blancas Airport, CD (COR/SACO), Argentina |
| Tucumán Airport, TU (TUC/SANT), Argentina |
Two hijackers demanded to be taken to Cuba.
Fourteen passengers were allowed to deplane at Stantiago de Chile. The jet then contunued to Lima and Havana.
Sources:
» Pablo Luciano Potenze (1987) Aviación comercial argentina, 1945-1980, Ediciones El Cronista Comercial
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Córdoba-Pajas Blancas Airport, CD to Tucumán Airport, TU as the crow flies is 504 km (315 miles).
Distance from Córdoba-Pajas Blancas Airport, CD to Tucumán Airport, TU as the crow flies is 504 km (315 miles).
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.
