Hijacking of Southern Airways Flight 49 correct answer: October 1972 Southern Air Flight 49 Louis Moore vs City of Detroit. Was joined by Henry Jackson
... [Show More] and arrested for sexual assault. DC9 Flight 49 Arrested in Cuba
Lod Airport Massacre correct answer: May 30, 1972 Tel Aviv Israel Japanese Red Army recruited by PFLP. 26 people killed 80 injured. Assault rifles, grenades.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Develops Airport Surveillance Program correct answer: 1974 DEA developed airport surveillance program for travelers of known "source" "use" cities
Bomb Explodes Near Pan Am Ticket Counter at LAX correct answer: Aug 6, 1974 2 skycaps 1 more person and 36 pthers injured. Bomb set of inside locker at Pan Am counter LAX. Yugoslavian terrorist Muharem Kurbegovic (alphabet bomber) with Aliens of America. Lockers moved to sterile and removed after.
Bomb Planted on a Pan Am Airplane from Japan to Honolulu correct answer: 1982 Bomb exploded on Pan AM Flight 830 from Tokyo to Honolulu. Bomb under seat by Mohammed Rashid with 15 May Organization. Bomb place from previous flight to detonate before landing. Killed 15 year old and wounded 15 PAX. 1 by 3 hole into plane. Landed safely.
TWA Hijacking in Greece correct answer: June 14, 1985 Mohammed ALi Hamadei plus another terrorist highjacked a TWA flew to Algiers. Shot killed Navy PAX. Crossed Mediterrain several times. PAX and crew released after 17 days.
Rome and Vienna Airports' Terror Attacks correct answer: 1985 7 Arab terrorist's with Abu Nidal Organization attacked Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Rome and Vienna International Airport in Vienna Austria. 19 deaths and 130 injured. PAX at EI AI Airlines were targeted.
1st Highjacking Civil Aviation correct answer: Feb 31 1931 Peru Revolutionaries propaganda 10 day standoff
1st Bombing involving civil aviation correct answer: May 1949 time bomb Philippine Air killed businessman by wife and lover
1st Major Act of Criminal Violence against US aircraft correct answer: Nov 1, 1955 1852 UAL 629 DC-6B 39PAX killed by bomb by Jack Gilbert Graham placed bomb on mother Daisie E. King Briefcase
First Persons in the U.S. to be Sentenced to Prison for Hijacking a Commercial Aircraft correct answer: August 3, 1961 Leon and Cody Bearden B707 from PHX - ELP wanted to go to Cuba gear and tires shot no injuries [Show Less]