Date: | Tuesday 19 September 1995 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing 707-3J9C |
Owner/operator: | Kish Air, lsf Saha Air |
Registration: | EP-SHE |
MSN: | 21127/915 |
Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 177 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | None |
Category: | Unlawful Interference |
Location: | Ovda Airport (VDA) -
Israel
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR/OIII) |
Destination airport: | Kish Island Airport (KIH/OIBK) |
Narrative:Shortly before landing on Kish Island, a flight attendant brandished a gun and hijacked the plane. The hijacker demanded to fly to Europe. But the plane, which was short on fuel, arrived in Israel after both Jordan and Saudi Arabia refused its request to land. There the hijacker surrendered.
Sources:
Bound for resort, hijacked Iranians get taste of Israel (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, September 29, 1995)
aerospacetalk.ir
Criminal Acts Against Civil Aviation 1995 / U.S. Department of Transport, FAA, Office of Civil Aviation Security
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
20 April 2005 |
EP-SHE |
Saha Air |
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Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR) |
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w/o |
Runway excursion |
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