| Date: | Sunday 13 September 1970 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-8-53 |
| Owner/operator: | Swissair |
| Registration: | HB-IDD |
| MSN: | 45656/191 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D- |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Zerqa RAF Station (Dawson's Field) -
 Jordan
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH) |
| New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) |
The DC-8 carrying 143 passengers and 12 crewmembers was hijacked after leaving Zürich on September 6. The plane was then flown to Zerqa, a military airfield 20 miles North of Amman. Hijackers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine released the hostages and blew up the plane September 13.
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photo (c) RuthAS; Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH); 02 August 1965; (CC:by)
photo (c) ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Swissair; Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH); 1964; (CC:by-sa)
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