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Dawson's Field hijackings. Three airliners were destroyed by explosion at Dawson's Field on 12 September 1970. In September 1970, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound for New York City and one for London. Three aircraft were forced to land at Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip ...
Pan Am Flight 73 was a Pan American World Airways flight from Bombay, India, to New York, United States, with scheduled stops in Karachi, Pakistan, and Frankfurt, West Germany. On September 5, 1986, the Boeing 747-121 serving the flight was hijacked while on the ground at Karachi by four armed Palestinian terrorists of the Abu Nidal ...
Pan Am Flight 841 was a commercial passenger flight of a Boeing 747 from San Francisco, California to Saigon, South Vietnam which was hijacked over the South China Sea on July 2, 1972, ostensibly as an act of protest concerning United States involvement in the Vietnam War as well as the expulsion from the U.S. of the South Vietnamese hijacker, a recent graduate of a U.S. university.
In December 1973, Fatah, a Palestinian military organization executed series of attacks originating at Rome-Fiumicino Airport in Italy which resulted in the deaths of 34 people. [1] The attacks began with an airport-terminal invasion and hostage-taking, followed by the firebombing of a Pan Am aircraft and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight.
August 2 A man armed with a pistol and nitroglycerin hijacks Pan Am Flight 229, Clipper Victor, bound for San Juan from New York to Cuba. This was the first hijacking of the newly introduced Boeing 747 to Cuba and Premiere Fidel Castro came out to Havana's José Martí Airport to see the new airliner for himself. Castro reportedly met in person ...
Evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93. John Joseph Ferruggio (July 6, 1925 – June 19, 2010) was an American in-flight director who led the evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. [1] There were no fatalities among the plane's 153 passengers and crew due to Ferruggio's actions. [1]
Thomas G. Plaskett (CEO, 1988–1991) Russell L. Ray Jr. (CEO, 1991) Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways[2] and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for much of the 20th century.
Media in category "Dawson's Field hijackings". This category contains only the following file. Dawson's Field.JPG 620 × 369; 68 KB. Categories: Aircraft hijackings. Aviation accidents and incidents in 1970. Aviation accidents and incidents in Jordan. Jordan–State of Palestine relations. Attacks on aircraft by Palestinian militant groups.