Hijacking
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Statuts: | |
| Date: | 29 JUN 2012 |
| Heure: | 12:35 |
| Type/Sous-type: | Embraer ERJ 190-100 LR (ERJ-190LR) |
| Compagnie: | Tianjin Airlines |
| Immatriculation: | B-3171 |
| Numéro de série: | 19000379 |
| Année de Fabrication: | 2010 |
| Moteurs: | 2 General Electric CF34-10E5 |
| Equipage: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 9 |
| Passagers: | victimes: 2 / à bord: 92 |
| Total: | victimes: 2 / à bord: 101 |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Aucun |
| Lieu de l'accident: | Hotan Airport (HTN) (Chine) |
| Phase de vol: | En vol (ENR) |
| Nature: | Transport de Passagers Nat. |
| Aéroport de départ: | Hotan Airport (HTN/ZWTN), Chine |
| Urumqi Airport (URC/ZWWW), Chine | |
| Numéro de vol: | 7554 |
An Embraer ERJ 190 passenger jet returned to Hotan Airport (HTN), China following a foiled hijacking attempt. Tianjin Airlines flight 7554 to Urumqi was en route when three passengers in the front and three in the back stood up and announced a hijacking.
Passengers and crew overpowered the hijackers who were subdued. According to media reports the hijackers carried explosives and had attempted to break into the airplane's cockpit with a crutch.
The flight returned to land at Hotan where the hijackers were apprehended.
Two hijackers later died in hospital from injuries received in the fight with passengers and crew.
Sources:
» GSCN.com
» CAAC news release
» Global Times
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Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tels qui sont connus à ce jour.
