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Date: | Sunday 13 September 1970 |
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Type: | Boeing 707-331B |
Owner/operator: | Trans World Airlines - TWA |
Registration: | N8715T |
MSN: | 18917/460 |
Year of manufacture: | 1965 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Zerqa RAF Station (Dawson's Field) -
Jordan
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Frankfurt International Airport (FRA/EDDF) |
Destination airport: | New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) |
Narrative:The Boeing 707 carrying 141 passengers and 10 crewmembers was hijacked after leaving Frankfurt September 6. The plane was then flown to Zerqa, a military airfield 20 miles N of Amman. Hijackers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine released the hostages and blew up the plane September 13.
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photo (c) Ralf Hoffmann Collection, via Werner Fischdick; Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH); 1970
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