| Date: | Saturday 23 August 1969 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Hawker Siddeley HS-748-245 Srs. 2A |
| Owner/operator: | Avianca |
| Registration: | HK-1408 |
| MSN: | 1657 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 27 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Santiago Airport (SCU) -
 Cuba
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Bucaramanga-Gomez Niño Airport |
| Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO) |
An Avianca Hawker Siddeley HS-748 passenger plane was hijacked during a domestic flight from Bucaramanga to Bogotá, Colombia.
The flight was hijacked shortly after taking off at 06:30 local time. Two hijackers demanded to be taken to Cuba. A refueling stop was made at Barranquilla before the plane continued to Santiago Airport (SCU), Cuba.
Sources:
El Tiempo - 24 Aug 1969
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 30 May 1970 | HK-1408 | Avianca | 0 | Havana-José Martí International Airport (HAV) | |
unk |
| Hijack | ||||||
| 5 July 1973 | HK-1408 | Avianca | 0 | Bucaramanga-Gomez Niño Airport |  |
w/o |
| Runway excursion | ||||||
Location
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