Date:	Thursday 25 July 1957
Time:
Type:	Convair CV-240-1
Owner/operator:	Western Air Lines
Registration:	N8406H
MSN:	27
Year of manufacture:	1948
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 16
Aircraft damage:	Substantial, repaired
Category:	UI
Location:	over Daggett, CA -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport, NV (LAS/KLAS)
Destination airport:	Los Angeles International Airport, CA (LAX/KLAX)
Investigating agency:	CAB

Narrative:
About 45 minutes after takeoff, at the cruising altitude of 7500 feet, an explosion occurred in the lavatory. A passenger had detonated a charge of dynamite, causing hole in the fuselage, through which he was blown out. A safe landing was carried out 17 minutes after the occurrence at George Air Force Base.

Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
Youngstown Vindicator 26 July 1957, p1

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