Hijacking description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 02 JAN 1973 |
| Type: | NAMC YS-11 |
| Operator: | Piedmont Airlines |
| Registration: | registration unknown |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | None |
| Location: | Baltimore/Washington Friendship International Airport, MD (BWI) (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Standing (STD) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Atlanta (unknown airport), GA, United States of America |
| Baltimore/Washington Friendship International Airport, MD (BWI/KBWI), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 928 |
One passenger remained on board after landing and demanded to be taken to Canada. He was talked into surrendering by a Roman Catholic cardinal and an FBI agent.
Events:
Sources:
» Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Jan 2, 1973
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.
