What the records say
- When
- 30 May 1973
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 4.00° N, 73.25° W
- Description
- 1973 hijacking of a Colombian airliner
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
SAM Colombia Flight 601
1973 hijacking of a Colombian airliner
The SAM Colombia Flight 601 was a Lockheed L-188 Electra, which was hijacked when it was scheduled to fly from Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport of Cali to Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellín, with a stop at Matecaña International Airport in Pereira, Colombia on May 30, 1973. It was one of the longest hijackings in the history of commercial aviation.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “es secuestrado el Vuelo 601 de SAM por dos jugadores paraguayos de fútbol, quienes se hicieron pasar por guerrilleros”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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