| Date: | Friday 19 March 1971 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  McDonnell Douglas DC-8-53 |
| Owner/operator: | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
| Registration: | PH-DCM |
| MSN: | 45616/147 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport (PBM) -
 Suriname
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport (PBM/SMJP) |
| Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS/EHAM) |
A man, armed with an Uzi submachine gun, took a car at the Zanderij Airport in Suriname and drove to a parked KLM DC-8 jet on the apron. All passengers had just boarded the flight. The armed man went on board and threatened a flight attendant.
Two members of the border police boarded the plane after about an hour and managed to get the hijacker to surrender.
Sources:
De Telegraaf 22-03-1971
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