| Date: | Wednesday 1 July 1970 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VI-N |
| Owner/operator: | Cruzeiro do Sul |
| Registration: | PP-PDX |
| MSN: | 126 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1962 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 31 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Rio de Janeiro, RJ -
 Brazil
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Rio de Janeiro (unknown airport), RJ |
| São Paulo (unknown airport), SP |
Four hijackers demanded release of prisoners and to be taken to Cuba. Plane stormed/hijackers arrested. Duration of the hijacking: less than 1 day.
Sources:
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 October 1969 | PP-PDX | Cruzeiro do Sul | 0 | Havana |  |
unk |
| Hijack | ||||||
| 1 June 1973 | PP-PDX | Cruzeiro do Sul | 23 | São Luíz-Marechal Cunha Machado Airport, MA (SLZ) | |
w/o |
| Loss of control | ||||||
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