Tehran Hijacking?

[reverserunlocked]

My boss and I were having one of those 'tricky situations you've been in and lived to tell the tale' type conversations last week.

Mine were pretty tame - like surviving the odd thunderstorm or my wife's cooking.

But he told me that when he was a baby (he's 30-odd now, so i guess early '70's..), he was hijacked on a flight from London to Delhi on the ground in Tehran. He said that he doesn't remember anything about it other than the pilot was killed. He seems fairly sure it was a BA flight.

Being an aviation bod like I am, I was a bit miffed that I couldn't recall this particular hijack.

Could anyone shed any light on it? I've searched around the web but to no avail.

Ta

RU.

[McD]

Have you tried the http://aviation-safety.net/database/hijackings/ website yet? They have a tremendous amount of information.

Is it possible that your boss said Tunis or Tripoli instead of Teheran? In 1974, a British Airways VC-10 ended up in Tunis after a hijack. Click here (http://aviation-safety.net/cgi-bin/dbsearch.cgi?hijackings+search+display+932&) for some of the facts surrounding the event.

I searched some other websites, and the details are sketchy, but it appears that the flight departed London and arrived at Dubai. (It might have made an enroute stop in Beirut.) After arriving in Dubai, it was taken over by the hijackers and eventually flown to Tunis. (It may have gone to Calcutta and Tripoli before reaching Tunis.)

Hope this helps.

[ 18 December 2001: Message edited by: McD ]

[reverserunlocked]

Indeed - that might be the one. The dates certainly are about right, and there was one fatality.

I'll ask him again if he remembers more about it!

Ta MCD.