Hijacking description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 23 JUL 1971 |
| Type: | Boeing 727 |
| Operator: | Trans World Airlines - TWA |
| Registration: | registration unknown |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 61 |
| Airplane damage: | Unknown |
| Location: | New York-La Guardia Airport, NY (LGA) (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | New York-La Guardia Airport, NY (LGA/KLGA), United States of America |
| Chicago (unknown airport), IL, United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 335 |
Hijacker shot and killed while attempting to change aircraft (TWA B707 N8733) 1 hijacker demanded to be taken to Italy.
Sources:
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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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.
