ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334437
Date: | Thursday 25 July 1957 |
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Type: | Convair CV-240-1 |
Owner/operator: | Western Air Lines |
Registration: | N8406H |
MSN: | 27 |
Year of manufacture: | 1948 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 16 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
Category: | UI |
Location: | over Daggett, CA -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport, NV (LAS/KLAS) |
Destination airport: | Los Angeles International Airport, CA (LAX/KLAX) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Narrative:About 45 minutes after takeoff, at the cruising altitude of 7500 feet, an explosion occurred in the lavatory. A passenger had detonated a charge of dynamite, causing hole in the fuselage, through which he was blown out. A safe landing was carried out 17 minutes after the occurrence at George Air Force Base.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Report number: | final report |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
Youngstown Vindicator 26 July 1957, p1
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