Date:	Monday 3 January 2011
Time:	21:00 LT
Type:	Boeing 777-222ER
Owner/operator:	United Airlines
Registration:	N223UA
MSN:	30224/357
Year of manufacture:	2001
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 255
Aircraft damage:	Minor
Location:	En route to Frankfurt (EDDF) -   Canada
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	KORD
Destination airport:	EDDF
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Pilot of United Airlines flight 940 from Chicago to Frankfurt, spilled his coffee over the radio which then transmitted the distress code to alert that the aircraft had been hijacked. The radio was then inoperable. The flight was then diverted to Toronto CYYZ.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12121669
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/01/05/coffee-spill-causes-diversion-flight.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8242456/Hijack-alert-after-pilot-spills-coffee-on-controls.html
http://avherald.com/h?article=435ad471&opt=0 No mention of hijack code!!

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Jan-2011 00:05	saf7670	Added
19-Jan-2011 18:47	bizjets101	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Mar-2011 10:29	RobertMB	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Source]