| Date: | Sunday 19 October 1969 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Ilyushin Il-18B |
| Owner/operator: | LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Year of manufacture: | 1966 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 61 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Berlin-Tegel Airport (TXL) -
 Germany
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW/EPWA) |
| Berlin-Schönefeld Airport (SXF/EDDB) |
The Il-18 aircraft was on its way from Warsaw, Poland, to Brussels, Belgium via Berlin-Schönefeld Airport when the aircraft was hijacked and made to land at Berlin-Tegel Airport at 13.55. After three hours on the ground the aircraft left for Schönefeld.
Both male hijackers were from East Germany and requested asylum in West Berlin.
Sources:
Algemeen Handelsblad 20-10-1969
West Germany: West Berlin: East Berliners Hijack Polish Airliner To French West Sector (British Pathé)
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