| Date: | Wednesday 29 September 2004 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Dornier 228-212 |
| Owner/operator: | Kato Air |
| Registration: | LN-BER |
| MSN: | 8192 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1990 |
| Engine model: | Garrett TPE331-5A-252D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Bodø Airport (BOO) -
 Norway
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Narvik-Framnes Airport (NVK/ENNK) |
| Bodø Airport (BOO/ENBO) | |
| Confidence Rating: |
Both pilots and a passenger were seriously injured when a man attacked the pilots with an axe. Kato Air flight 605 was on approach to Bodø airport. Several passengers tried to restrain the man as the pilots regained control of the airplane and emergency landed at Bodø. The assailant was an asylum seeker whose application for asylum had reportedly been rejected.
Sources:
Aftenposten
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