| Date: | Sunday 13 September 1970 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing 707-331B |
| Owner/operator: | Trans World Airlines - TWA |
| Registration: | N8715T |
| MSN: | 18917/460 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1965 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B |
| 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: | Frankfurt International Airport (FRA/EDDF) |
| New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) |
The Boeing 707 carrying 141 passengers and 10 crewmembers was hijacked after leaving Frankfurt September 6. The plane was then flown to Zerqa, a military airfield 20 miles N 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) Ralf Hoffmann Collection, via Werner Fischdick; Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH); 1970
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