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
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Western Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
Western Airlines Flight 701 was an aircraft hijacking that occurred on June 3, 1972, when the flight was seized by Willie Roger Holder and Catherine Marie Kerkow.
Hijacking
On June 3, 1972, Willie Roger Holder and Catherine Marie Kerkow hijacked Western Airlines Flight 701 shortly after departure. The pair initially intended to divert the aircraft to North Vietnam but instead flew to Algeria. Following the landing, Holder and Kerkow joined the International Section of the Black Panther Party, remaining outside the United States for several years.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Western Airlines Flight 701
- Article
- Western Airlines Flight 701
- Revision
- 1358631723 · 2026-06-09 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q19841016
- 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 "Western Airlines Flight 701" (page 34270084, revision 1358631723)
- Date
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.