Malaysian Airline System Flight 653

When

4 Dec 1977

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

1.39° N, 103.53° E

Description

1977 aviation hijacking

Deaths

100

Injured

0

Participants

7

1977 aircraft hijacking in Malaysia

Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 was a scheduled domestic flight from Penang to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, operated by Malaysian Airline System (MAS). On the evening of 4 December 1977, the Boeing 737-200 aircraft flying the service crashed at Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, while purportedly being diverted by hijackers to Singapore.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, killing all 100 passengers and crew on board”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Johor Bahru, Malaysia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “détournement et crash du vol 653 Malaysia Airlines System”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В Малайзии разбился угнанный Boeing 737-2H6, погибли 100 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Tanjung Kupang (Johor, Malasia) el vuelo 653 de Malaysia Airlines es secuestrado y se estrella, matando a los 100 pasajeros y tripulantes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page