What the records say
- When
- 5 Sep 1986
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 24.91° N, 67.16° E
- Description
- Pan Am Flight 73, with 358 people on board, is hijacked at Karachi International Airport by four Abu Nidal terrorists.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Pan Am Flight 73.
Summary
Pan Am Flight 73, with 358 people on board, is hijacked at Karachi International Airport by four Abu Nidal terrorists
Pan Am Flight 73
1986 ground hijacking in Pakistan
Pan Am Flight 73 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by Pan American World Airways from Bombay to New York City via Karachi and Frankfurt. On 5 September 1986, the Boeing 747-100 serving the flight, with 379 passengers and crew on board, was hijacked while on the ground at Karachi by four armed Palestinian militants affiliated with the Abu Nidal Organization.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в Карачи (Пакистан) 4 террориста из группы Абу Нидаля захватили американский самолёт с 361 пассажиром на борту”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page