Japan Air Lines Flight 404 was an airliner hijacked by Palestinian and Japanese terrorists in 1973. ( or JAL, is an airline of Japan It is one of the largest Airline operators in Asia. Hijacking means to take over by force. Hijacking may refer to In property: Aircraft hijacking or 'skyjacking' Palestinian people or Palestinians ( الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha`b al-filasTīni; الفلسطينيون, al-filasTīnīyyūn For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar.
The flight departed Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport, Netherlands, on July 23, 1973, en route to Tokyo International Airport (Haneda), Japan, via Anchorage International Airport, Alaska. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the Netherlands ' main Airport, located 20 minutes (17 The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. located in Ōta Tokyo, Japan, is one of the two primary Airports serving the Greater Tokyo Area. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is the major Airport in the United States State of Alaska located 4 miles (6 km southwest Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent The aircraft was a Boeing 747-200, with 123 passengers and 22 crew members on board. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The passenger complement included five terrorists. Four were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the fifth, Osamu Maruoka, was a member of the Japanese Red Army. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP) ( Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين al-Jabhah al-Sha`biyyah li-Tahrīr The was a Terrorist group founded by Fusako Shigenobu in February 1971 after she broke away from the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction [1] The flight was hijacked shortly after takeoff from Schiphol. In the course of the hijacking, a grenade carried by one of the skyjackers detonated, killing her and injuring the flight's chief purser. The lead hijacker almost immediately announced himself to air traffic control as El Kassar, hijacking the aircraft in the name of the Palestinian Liberation movement. Air traffic control ( ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct Aircraft on the ground and in the air [2] After several Middle Eastern governments refused to permit Flight 404 to land, the plane eventually touched down in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. Dubai (in دبيّ,) is one of the seven emirates and most populous city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE After several days on the ground, the terrorists demanded the release of Kozo Okamoto, survivor of the JRA's attack on Tel Aviv's Lod Airport. was a member of the Japanese armed militant group Japanese Red Army (JRA Tel Aviv-Yafo (תֵּל ־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ تل أبيب Tal ʾAbīb) (usually Tel Aviv) is the second-largest city in Israel Ben Gurion International Airport (נמל התעופה בן גוריון Namal HaTe'ūfa Ben Gūryōn,, also referred to by its Hebrew acronym Natbag (נתב"ג [3]
After the Israeli government refused to release Okamoto, the hijackers flew the aircraft first to Damascus, Syria, and then to Benghazi, in Libya. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. Damascus ( دمشق,, also commonly known as الشام ash-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. Syria ( سوريّة or) officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic ar الجمهورية العربية السورية Benghazi or Bengasi ( Arabic بنغازي, transliterated Banġāzī,) is the second largest city in Libya and the Libya ( ليبيا ar-Latn Lībiyā; Libyan vernacular: Lībya; Amazigh:) officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab [4] Eighty-nine hours after the hijacking began, the passengers and crew were released; the hijackers then blew up the aircraft. [5]
References
- ^ In the Spotlight: Japanese Red Army. Center for Defense Information.
- ^ The Skyjackers Strike Again. Time. com.
- ^ The Skyjackers Strike Again, pg. 2. Time. com.
- ^ ASN Aircraft Accident description Boeing 747-246B JA8109 - Benghazi-Benina International Airport. aviation-safety. net.
- ^ Air Disaster.com: Japan Airlines 404.
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