Event

Japan Air Lines Flight 351

31 Mar 1970 · 35.54° N, 139.80° E

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When
31 Mar 1970
Kind
Event
Coordinates
35.54° N, 139.80° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Japan Air Lines Flight 351.

Summary

Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by Japanese Red Army members. All passengers and crew are eventually freed.

Japan Air Lines Flight 351

1970 aircraft hijacking

Japan Air Lines Flight 351 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tokyo Haneda Airport to Fukuoka that was hijacked by members of the Red Army Faction of the Japan Communist League on March 31, 1970, in an incident usually referred to in Japanese as the Yodo Hijacking Incident , after the aircraft's name Yodo.

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