ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 330397
| Date: | Friday 25 August 1972 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vickers 785D Viscount |
| Owner/operator: | Aerolíneas TAO |
| Registration: | HK-1058 |
| MSN: | 380 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 510 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 31 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Camagüey Airport (CMW) -
 Cuba
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Neiva Airport (NVA/SKNV) |
| Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO) |
A Vickers Viscount, operated by Aerolíneas TAO, was hijacked en route between Neiva Airport (NVA) and Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG) at 10:15 local time.
Four hijackers demanded to be flown to Cuba.
The flight first headed for Barrancabermeja-Yariguíes Airport (EJA) where it landed at 11:50. After refuelling the airplane continued to Camagüey Airport (CMW), Cuba where it landed at 16:30.
Sources:
El Tiempo - 26 Aug. 1972
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 18 July 1972 | HK-1058 | Aerolíneas TAO | 1 | 145 km SE of San Andrés |  |
non |
| 8 June 1974 | HK-1058 | Aerolíneas TAO | 44 | 16 km W of Cúcuta-Camilo Daza Airport (CUC) | |
w/o |
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