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Pakistan International Airlines released details of the flight manifest which shows 91 passengers (51 men, 31 women, and 9 children); there were also 8 crew members. [5] [9] [27] [28] [15] The death toll was confirmed as 97, consisting solely of those on board the plane [11] [29] but later one of those injured on the ground died. [30]
Pakistan 2016 Singer Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661: Havelian, Pakistan Engine failure Anna Jantar: Poland 1980 Entertainer, singer LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 [6] Warsaw, Poland Struck trees during landing go around Shuba Jay [63] Malaysia 2014 Actress Malaysia Airlines Flight 17: Hrabove, Ukraine: Airliner shootdown Jayan ...
N513AU in Miami, originally registered as N382AU. The flight crew consisted of Captain Peter Germano, [3] aged 45, who was hired by USAir on February 4, 1981, [1]: 8 and First Officer Charles B. "Chuck" Emmett III, [3] aged 38, who was hired in February 1987 by Piedmont Airlines (which merged into USAir in 1989).
He had been shot to death, possibly up to a year before his body was found. Until his identification in 2021, he was referred to as "Septic Tank Sam". [235] Murdered 44 years 1977 Pilar Calveiro: 24 Argentina Argentine political scientist by a member of the Air Force on May 7, 1977, and held in detention by the military dictatorship. After her ...
This incident is believed to be the first commercial passenger plane attacked by hostile forces. [1] On 24 August 1938 – during the Second Sino-Japanese War – the Kweilin, a DC-2 jointly operated by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and Pan American World Airways, carrying 18 passengers and crew, was forced down by Japanese aircraft in Chinese territory just north of Hong Kong. 15 ...
The militants were later released in Pakistan citing "lack of evidence". [112] May 8, 1977: Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 22, a Boeing 747 en route from Tokyo to Honolulu, was hijacked about an hour after takeoff by a passenger who held a razor to a flight attendant's throat and demanded to be flown to Moscow.
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 740 was a Hajj pilgrimage flight from Kano, Nigeria to Karachi, Pakistan with an intermediate stopover in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Operated by Pakistan International Airlines , on 26 November 1979, the Boeing 707-340C serving the route crashed shortly after takeoff from Jeddah International Airport.
The hijackers were convicted under 402-B (hijacking code defined in Pakistani law) in 1998 and were given the death penalty in 1999. All hijackers were hanged on 28 May 2015, after 17 years to the day when Pakistan had successfully conducted their nuclear tests in Chaghi , Balochistan.