ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 327314
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| Date: | Tuesday 4 December 1984 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Airbus A300C4-620 |
| Owner/operator: | Kuwait Airways |
| Registration: | 9K-AHG |
| MSN: | 332 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1984 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7R4H1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 161 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR) -
 Iran
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Dubai Airport (DXB/OMDB) |
| Karachi International Airport (KHI/OPKC) |
After a refueling stop in Dubai (DXB) while en-route to Karachi (KHI), the aircraft was hijacked to Tehran (THR) by four heavily armed Arabs. Over the next
six days the hijackers released 153 passengers and crew in several groups. The hijackers demanded the release of 17 prisoners, jailed in Kuwait for bomb attacks on U.S. and French installations. While the aircraft was in Tehran, the hijackers beat and tortured at least six passengers and killed two American passengers.
Kuwait authorities refused to release the militants from jail. The hijacking ended on December 9, 1984 when Iranian security forces boarded the aircraft and overpowered the hijackers. The hijackers were believed to have been linked to the Iraqi underground organization "Al Dawa".
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| 15 February 1991 | 9K-AHG | Kuwait Airways | 0 | Mosul Airport (OSM) |  |
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photo (c) ANP Foundation; Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR); 06 December 1984; (CC:by-nc-nd)
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