KLM Flight 861
Boeing 747-206B · Aircraft hijacking
From Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) to Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Occurrence
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 264
- Survivors
- 264
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Boeing 747-206B
- Flight
- KL861
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 747
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- PH-BUA
- Operator
- KLM
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)To Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)
Approximate · Estimated position: Dubai, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
KLM Flight 861, operated by a Boeing 747 registered as PH-BUA and named "The Mississippi", was hijacked on 25 November 1973, in Iraqi airspace whilst on a scheduled Amsterdam-Tokyo flight with 247 passengers on board.
Hijacking
KLM Flight 861, captained by Issac Risseeuw, was a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Tokyo-Haneda with planned stops at Athens, Beirut, and Delhi. The airplane was en route over Iraq when it was hijacked by three passengers, claiming to be members of the Arab Youth Organization for the Liberation of Palestine. They forced the plane to Damascus, Nicosia, Tripoli, Malta, and finally Dubai where the hijackers surrendered to authorities. All 247 passengers and 17 crew survived the hijacking.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: KLM Flight 861
- Article
- KLM Flight 861
- Revision
- 1339303345 · 2026-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q16980985
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "KLM Flight 861" (page 32292132, revision 1339303345)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.