ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 331195
Date: | Wednesday 11 March 1970 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing 727 |
Owner/operator: | United Airlines |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 105 |
Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Havana-José Martí International Airport (HAV) -
Cuba
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Cleveland (unknown airport), OH |
Destination airport: | Atlanta-William B. Hartsfield International Airport, GA (ATL/KATL) |
Narrative:United Airlines flight 361 had just taken off from Cleveland, Ohio when the pilot radioed that the flight had been hijacked. A man, traveling with his wife and three children, had pulled a .32 caliber revolver and demanded to be taken to Cuba.
The aircraft refueled at Atlanta, Georgia, before proceeding to Havana.
Sources:
St. Petersburg Times - Mar 12, 1970 Location
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