Hijacking description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 10 JAN 1981 |
| Type: | Antonov 24B |
| Operator: | LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze |
| Registration: | SP-LTB |
| C/n / msn: | 67302205 |
| First flight: | 1966 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Unknown |
| Location: | Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW) (Poland)
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| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport (KTW/EPKT), Poland |
| Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW/EPWA), Poland |
4 hijackers demanded to be taken to 'the west'. Plane stormed/hijackers arrested. Duration of the hijacking: less than 1 day.
Events:
Sources:
» Miklos Szabo
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Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport to Warszawa-Okecie Airport as the crow flies is 228 km (142 miles).
Distance from Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport to Warszawa-Okecie Airport as the crow flies is 228 km (142 miles).
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.
