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Hijacking | |
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Date | April 23, 1973 |
Summary | Hijacking |
Site | Shosseynaya Airport, Leningrad, Soviet Union |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Tupolev Tu-104B |
Operator | Aeroflot |
Registration | СССР-42505 |
Flight origin | Shosseynaya Airport |
Destination | Sheremetyevo International Airport |
Occupants | 57 |
Passengers | 51 |
Crew | 6 |
Fatalities | 2 |
Survivors | 55 |
Aeroflot Flight 2420 was a passenger flight from Leningrad-Shosseynaya Airport to Sheremetyevo International Airport that, on April 23, 1973, was hijacked by a passenger demanding to go to Stockholm. The crew returned to Leningrad but the hijacker detonated the bomb, killing himself and the mechanic, who had gone out to negotiate with the hijacker.[1]