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There are no Russians among them, the Russian embassy in Cyprus said. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation confirmed this information. "We are closely following the development of the situation, we are in contact with the authorities of Cyprus and Egypt," the Foreign Ministry said.
Among the passengers are 10 US citizens and eight British citizens, Al-Arabiya TV channel reports.
The hijacker allowed the Egyptian passengers to leave the plane, the Al-Arabiya TV channel reported, in particular, the hijacker allowed women and children to leave. According to the ERT-1 TV channel, the hijacker released about 50 passengers from the plane.
Who hijacked the plane
The plane was hijacked by one person, according to Reuters. According to the Al-Bawaba news portal, the plane was hijacked by a terrorist armed with a suicide belt. Information about the nationality of the militant has not yet been received.
The hijacker threatened to detonate the suicide belt, sources at Burg al-Arab airport, where the plane took off in the morning, said. The captain of the plane managed to contact the dispatchers and report that the plane was stolen. At the same time, according to them, the kidnapper demanded to send the plane to Larnaca.
According to the Al-Yaum al-Sabia news portal, citing sources in the air harbor of Cairo, the Egyptian air traffic control service lost contact with the A320 immediately after takeoff.
In connection with the hijacking of an EgyptAir Airbus A320 passenger plane that landed at the Cypriot airport of Larnaca, Lenta.ru recalled the most high-profile similar cases that have occurred over the past two decades. Among them were personal tragedies and tragicomedies, but there was also real terrorism.
February 17, 2014. On the flight Addis Ababa - Rome - Milan, the co-pilot of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 airliner, waiting for the commander to leave the cockpit, locked himself in it and hijacked the plane to Geneva. On board, in addition to him, there were 193 passengers and 8 crew members. Once above the city, he contacted the authorities and requested political asylum. The plane landed with a ten-minute supply of fuel on board, the hijacker surrendered to the authorities and received 20 years in prison.
April 19, 2009. The Boeing 737 of the Canadian airline CanJet was hijacked before takeoff from the Jamaican airport of Montego Bay by an armed passenger who carried a gun on board. There were 182 people on the plane. The invader demanded to fly to Cuba. After several hours of negotiations, he released the passengers, but continued to hold the crew members. Jamaican special forces took the plane by storm. No harm done.
September 11, 2001. The largest aircraft hijacking in civil aviation history. Four airliners of United Airlines and American Airlines were hijacked by terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda (banned in the Russian Federation). Two of them rammed the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one crashed into the Pentagon building, another fell in Pennsylvania after passengers tried to break the door to the cockpit, where the hijackers locked themselves.
Photo: Konstanin Krymsky; Valentin Kuzmin / TASS
March 15, 2001. The Tu-154 airliner of Vnukovo Airlines, flying from Istanbul to Moscow, was hijacked by three Chechens who demanded to fly to Saudi Arabia. There were 174 people on board. After landing in Medina for refueling, the terrorists' plans changed: they decided to fly to Afghanistan, but then they began to threaten to blow up the plane. Saudi intelligence services stormed the plane, as a result of which one of the terrorists, a passenger (a Turkish citizen) and flight attendant Yulia Fomina, were killed.
May 25, 2000. A Philippine Airlines flight (an A330) from Davao to Manila was hijacked shortly before landing by a man armed with a grenade and a pistol. There were 278 people and 13 crew members on board. The invader ordered the passengers to put their valuables in a bag, after which he demanded that the pilots descend and open the hatch so that he could jump out on a makeshift parachute. At the last moment, the robber panicked, and the flight attendant pushed him out of the hatch, the plane at that moment was at an altitude of 1800 meters. The body of the hapless robber was found three days later, 70 kilometers from Manila.
December 24, 1999. An Indian Airlines A300 flying from Kathmandu to Delhi with 176 passengers and 15 crew members on board was hijacked by members of the Pakistani extremist group Harakat ul-Mujahideen. The terrorists first hijacked a plane to Indian Amritsar, from there they flew to Pakistani Lahore, then to Dubai (where 27 passengers were released) and finally arrived in Kandahar in Afghanistan. The hostages were released, the Taliban government gave the invaders 10 hours to leave Afghanistan.
July 23, 1999. The hijacking of an All Nippon Airways Boeing 747 carrying 503 passengers and 14 crew members. 25 minutes after taking off from Tokyo, a passenger armed with a kitchen knife entered the cockpit. The commander of the ship managed to report on the radio about the capture, after which he was killed with a knife. The invader attempted to fly the aircraft, but was pinned down by the rest of the crew. The plane returned to Tokyo. According to the results of the investigation, it turned out that the 29-year-old invader was under the influence of a strong dose of antidepressants and intended to fly by plane under the Rainbow Bridge across Tokyo Bay.
September 3, 1996 Tu-154 of the Bulgarian airline Hemus Air with 150 passengers and 8 crew members was hijacked on the way from Beirut to Varna. The hijacker (Palestinian) ordered to fly to Norway, after landing in Oslo he surrendered to the authorities and asked for political asylum. At the trial, he declared himself insane, but he still received four years in prison, after which he was sent back to Lebanon.
December 24, 1994. The hijacking of an Air France A300 (220 passengers and 12 crew members on board) flying from Algiers to Marseille. The plane was hijacked by four terrorists from the "Armed Islamic Group" (groups of radicals who fought against the central government of Algeria). The terrorists intended to ram the Eiffel Tower in Paris by plane. The captured plane took off from Algiers on the evening of December 25, and on December 26 landed in Marseille for refueling, after which it was taken by storm. Three passengers were killed (they were killed back in Algeria) and all four terrorists.
The first plane hijacking by Palestinians was on July 23, 1968. It was a half-empty flight El Al 426 from Rome to Tel Aviv. Terrorists from the left-wing Marxist organization PFLP (National Front for the Liberation of Palestine) captured him and sent him to Algiers. The Algerian government gladly accepted them, released them and took 23 non-Israeli passengers to Europe at its own expense, and left the rest as hostages. On July 27, they also released the women and children, and 12 more hostages remained.
They demanded in exchange that Israel release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. But, since the government of Algeria also took part in the negotiations, mentioning the PFLP, it turned out that pressure could be exerted: the international association of civilian pilots announced a boycott of Algeria. All planes stopped flying to Algiers. They moderated their demands and demanded the release of 16 prisoners. An agreement was reached and all the hostages returned safely. And even the plane was returned.
The next capture was a year later, on August 29, 1969. Aircraft TWA 840 followed the flight Los Angeles-New York-Rome-Athens-Tel Aviv. Two terrorists, a man and a woman, landed in Rome and demanded that the plane fly to Beirut. Apparently, they assumed that they would capture Rabin on the plane - then the Israeli ambassador to America, who, indeed, was flying that day, but on a different flight. During the flight, the terrorists demanded that he be sent to Tel Aviv, and then, already upon landing, they ordered him to turn around and fly to Damascus.
There were two terrorists: 30-year-old Salim Issaui and 23-year-old Komsomol athlete Leyla Khalid, who led the operation. Her photograph, taken in Damascus by famed photojournalist Eddie Adams, went around the world and is still exceptionally popular with Palestinians. In Damascus, the Syrian authorities immediately released the crew and all passengers, except for 6 Israelis - 4 women and 2 men. The next day, 4 women were also released, and two men were left hostage. The terrorists were briefly detained, but released in mid-October, and two Israelis were already held by the Syrians until December, when they, along with two Israeli pilots shot down over the Suez Canal, were exchanged for 71 Egyptian and Syrian prisoners of war.
Graffiti with a portrait of Leila Khaled on the dividing wall near Beit Lehem.
Leila Khaled underwent several plastic surgeries, and a year later, unrecognized, she made another attempt to hijack the plane. September 6, 1970 4 terrorists were supposed to board the plane El Al 219(Tel Aviv-Amsterdam-New York). Two of them, flying on Senegalese passports with consecutive numbers, the guards did not let through, and the other two - Nicaraguan-Sandinista Argüelo and Leila Khalid - boarded. When they tried to hijack the plane, the pilot made a decision unprecedented for civil aviation - he transferred the plane to a dive, everyone hit, and in the confusion, the guards tried to shoot Arguelo and neutralize Leila Khalid. The plane landed at Heathrow, Leila was handed over to the British authorities.
At the same time, several more aircraft were hijacked: TWA 741(Tel Aviv-Athens-Frankfurt-New York); Swiss Air 100(Zurich-New York). The planes were sent to the old English airfield Dawson Field in northern Jordan, near Irbid. The airport was under the control of the PFLP, which renamed it Revolution Airport.
Two people with Senegalese passports, who were not allowed to enter El Al, boarded Pan Am 93(Brussels-Amsterdam-New York) and captured him and sent him to Cairo: it was a Boeing 747, and ground services were not sure that he could land at Dawson Field. The terrorists mined the plane and set fire to the fuse fuse while the plane was driving down the runway. The captain of the ship, John Ferruggio, announced to the passengers:
"Now hear this and hear it good. When this plane comes to a complete stop...don't wait for me, don't wait for the captain, and don't wait for Jesus Christ. We are going to evacuate this plane, like right now."
Pan Am 93 after the explosion
All passengers were evacuated in less than 1.5 minutes. The captain, as expected, was the last to leave the ship, a few seconds before the explosion. No harm done. The Egyptian authorities arrested the terrorists and released all the hostages.
The terrorists held a press conference and said that they were letting all passengers go, except for citizens of America, Israel, Switzerland and Germany. The latter two were required to release several Palestinian prisoners. On September 9, another plane was hijacked - BOAC 775(Bombay-Bahrain-Beirut-London), he also flew to Dawson Field. The British were required to release Leila Khaled.
Germany and Switzerland immediately announced their agreement to release those arrested (England a few days later, too), but under pressure from Nixon, they froze the negotiations until a common decision. The Americans were preparing a military operation, but at the same time, through diplomatic channels, they put pressure on King Hussein, on the one hand, to start a military operation against the Fidains, and on the other hand, on Arafat, who at that moment was preparing to seize power in Jordan and did not want to turn in the eyes of the West into a patented terrorist. Complicated triple negotiations ended with the terrorists transferring all the hostages, except for ~60 Jews, regardless of citizenship, to a hotel in Amman, which was under the control of Arafat, and the Jews were taken out of the planes and taken away in an unknown direction. The planes were blown up.
After several more days of negotiations and at the same time King Hussein's military actions against the PFLP, Israel, under pressure from the Americans, promised to release a significant number of Palestinians (not immediately, so as not to look like a concession), but after a while, and the PFLP - to release all the hostages. No harm done.
Leila Khaled flew to Damascus. After some time, she got married, and to this day lives in Amman. King Hussein made her residence in Amman conditional on her complete renunciation of political activity, which she did. She, of course, continues to cut coupons from past exploits, speaks to the Swedish communists, then to someone else. Recently she said that DAASH are agents of world Zionism.
The most important consequence of the hijacking of the planes was that King Hussein received carte blanche from the Americans to crack down on Palestinian organizations as brutally as he liked. The civil war, called "Black September", actually continued for almost another year. But I will write more about this in another post.
In July and August, Russians travel more actively than at any other time of the year. It's time to remember some old but interesting chips for collecting information about planes, flights and airlines.
Where can I see the "dossier" on the plane?
You can find information on the registration number of the aircraft on the website planespotters.net. There you can find out:
- Aircraft age;
- Date of first flight;
- Place of production;
- Airplane model;
- What airlines did the aircraft belong to;
- View photos of the aircraft;
- Find out what accidents happened to the plane.
And now let's figure out how to find out the registration number of the aircraft and whether it is possible to derive some practical benefit from the information mentioned above.
How can I find out the registration number of an aircraft that is near you?
It is usually located on the fuselage in the tail section.
How can I find out the registration number of the aircraft I have flown before?
If the website or ticketing app you use doesn't report Wi-Fi on board the aircraft, look up your flight on routehappy.com. There you can see if the aircraft has USB ports for charging and whether they will be fed during the flight.
How to find out at what time the plane will fly over a certain place?
Let's say you're flying from Novosibirsk to Krasnodar and you want to try and get a glimpse of the Ural Mountains. At what minute of the flight will you need to look out the window?
1. Go to the page flightradar24.com/data and indicate the number of the desired flight there.
2. Select one of the completed flights and click on the blue button play.
3. Move the plane on the timeline until the plane on the map is in the right place.
All! Now we know that the plane will fly over the Ural Mountains at 2:25 UTC.
The FlightRadar map also displays a moving border between day and night. It can be used to determine the time when the plane will meet with sunset or dawn.
