Hijacking description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 05 JUL 1972 |
| Type: | Boeing 737-200 |
| Operator: | Pacific Southwest Airlines - PSA |
| Registration: | registration unknown |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 79 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 86 |
| Airplane damage: | Unknown |
| Location: | San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO) (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Sacramento (unknown airport), CA, United States of America |
| San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO/KSFO), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 710 |
Two hijackers demanded money (USD 800.000) and to be taken to the Soviet Union. The plane was stormed and both hijackers shot and killed. One passenger also died in the shooting.
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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.
