Hijacking description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 19 AUG 1970 |
| Type: | Ilyushin 14 |
| Operator: | LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze |
| Registration: | registration unknown |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Unknown |
| Location: | Bornholm (Denmark) |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Gdansk-Rebiechowo Airport (GDN/EPGD), Poland |
| Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW/EPWA), Poland |
5 hijackers demanded to be taken to Denmark. Duration of the hijacking: less than 1 day.
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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 Gdansk-Rebiechowo Airport to Warszawa-Okecie Airport as the crow flies is 295 km (184 miles).
Distance from Gdansk-Rebiechowo Airport to Warszawa-Okecie Airport as the crow flies is 295 km (184 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.
