ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 329466
Date: | Monday 5 January 1976 |
Time: | |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61 |
Owner/operator: | Japan Air Lines - JAL |
Registration: | JA8043 |
MSN: | 46128/514 |
Year of manufacture: | 1970 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 223 |
Aircraft damage: | None |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Manila Airport (MNL) -
Philippines
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Manila Airport (MNL/RPLL) |
Destination airport: | Tokyo-Haneda Airport (HND/RJTT) |
Narrative:Two Filipino passengers, armed with a pistol and explosives, hijacked Japan Air Lines flight 768 before it was due to take off from Manila, Philippines on a flight to Tokyo, Japan.
During negotiations 203 of the 211 passengers were released. The hijackers demanded a free flight to Japan. After the Japanese government refused to give the plane permission to land, the hijackers surrendered to.
Sources:
Sengo-Haijakku-Zenshi / Kouichi Inasaka, 1997
British Pathé
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