Hijacking description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 18 OCT 1986 |
| Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Operator: | Surinam Airways |
| Registration: | PZ-TCD |
| C/n / msn: | 646 |
| First flight: | 1979 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Unknown |
| Location: | Stoelmanseiland (Suriname) |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport (PBM/SMJP), Suriname |
| Raleigh, Suriname |
Hijacked after landing; Lloyds paid FL500.000 to get the aircraft back, May 1987! 5 hijackers.
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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.
