Date:	Monday 17 December 1973
Time:	13:00
Type:	Boeing 707-321B
Owner/operator:	Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)
Registration:	N407PA
MSN:	18838/412
Year of manufacture:	1965
Total airframe hrs:	39932 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 30 / Occupants: 177
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO) -   Italy
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO/LIRF)
Destination airport:	Beirut International Airport (BEY/OLBA)

Narrative:
Five terrorist entered the Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO) terminal and fired their weapons. They took six hostages and threw incendiary grenades into a PanAm Boeing 707 N407PA, named "Clipper Celestial", that was boarding passengers for a flight to Beirut. The terrorists killed a guard and hijacked a Lufthansa Boeing 737. The hijackers ended up in Kuwait where they surrendered on December 18.

Algemeen Dagblad 19.12.1973
Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA

photo (c) ANP Foundation; Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO); 17 December 1973; (CC:by-nc-nd)

photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Düsseldorf Airport (DUS); 10 December 1973

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