| Date: | Wednesday 5 July 1972 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing 737-200 |
| Owner/operator: | Pacific Southwest Airlines - PSA |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 86 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Sacramento (unknown airport), CA |
| San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO/KSFO) |
Two hijackers demanded money (USD 800.000) and to be taken to the Soviet Union. The plane was stormed and both hijackers shot and killed. One passenger also died in the shooting.
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