ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328033
| Date: | Saturday 22 August 1981 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Antonov An-24V |
| Owner/operator: | LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze |
| Registration: | SP-LTC |
| MSN: | 67302208 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1966 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Berlin-Tempelhof Airport -
 Germany
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Wroclaw-Strachowice Airport (WRO/EPWR) |
| Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW/EPWA) |
About five minutes after take off the hijacker removed a hand grenade from the rear of a portable radio, went to the cockpit and ordered the crew to fly to Tempelhof Airport, West Berlin. After landing at Tempelhof the hijacker surrendered to U.S. authorities. Later he was turned over to German authorities in West Berlin. Sentenced by West Berlin court to 5-1/2 years.
Sources:
Miklos Szabo
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