ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328642
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| Date: | Friday 16 March 1979 |
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| Type: | Boeing 727 |
| Owner/operator: | Continental Air Lines |
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| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 95 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Tucson International Airport, AZ (TUS) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Phoenix-Sky Harbor International Airport, AZ (PHX/KPHX) |
| Tucson International Airport, AZ (TUS/KTUS) |
Shortly after leaving Phoenix, holding his hand in a pocket, a hijacker told a stewardness that he had a "cutter" and that he was taking over the aircraft. He demanded $200,000 in small bills and indicated he wanted to go to Cuba. After landing at Tucson the passengers and all but one flight attendant deplaned. The flight crew escaped through a cockpit window. Security officers communicated with the hijacker via notes viewed through a window in the ventral stair door. FBI agents climbed into the aircraft
through a cockpit window. The stewardess locked herself in a restroom and the police and FBI apprehended the hijacker. He had only a nail file.
The hijacker was found mentally incompetent.
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