Criminal Occurrence description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 12 NOV 1967 |
| Type: |  Boeing 727-23 |
| Operator: | American Airlines |
| Registration: | registration unknown |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 72 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 78 |
| Airplane damage: | Minor |
| Airplane fate: | Repaired |
| Location: | over Alamosa, CO (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Chicago (unknown airport), IL, United States of America |
| San Diego International Airport, CA (SAN/KSAN), United States of America |
En route over Alamosa a small explosion occurred in the rear baggage compartment, destroying three bags. A safe landing was carried out, 1 hour and 45 minutes later. The FBI arrested the man who was responsible for planting the homemade and crude explosive device on the plane.
Sources:
» Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
