What the records say
- When
- 2 May 1981
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 50.51° N, 1.63° E
- Description
- scheduled Boeing 737 passenger flight which was hijacked on 2 May 1981
- Deaths
- 0
3 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Aer Lingus flight 164 is hijacked just before landing at London Heathrow airport”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “détournement d'un avion irlandais d'Air Lingus sur l'aéroport du Touquet avec cent dix-huit personnes à bord”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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