ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 329057
| Date: | Friday 12 August 1977 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Airbus A300 |
| Owner/operator: | Air France |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 242 |
| Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Brindisi-Papola Casale Airport (BDS) -
 Italy
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE/LFMN) |
| Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA) |
The Air France Airbus A300 was hijacked to Benghazi, Libya and then towards Athens, Greece, where the aircraft was denied permission to land by both Libyan and Greek authorities.
The plane, low on fuel, turned back towards Italy, landing at Brindisi-Casale Airport where the hijacker was seized.
Sources:
L'Unità, 13-8-1977
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