1956 Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano hijacking
Douglas DC-4 · Aircraft hijacking
From Viru Viru International Airport (VVI) to El Alto International Airport (LPB)
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
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 57
- 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
Douglas DC-4
- Aircraft type
- Douglas DC-4
- 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
- CP-610
- Operator
- Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Viru Viru International Airport (VVI)To El Alto International Airport (LPB)
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
The Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano hijacking occurred on 28 September 1956, involving a Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Douglas DC-4 with a scheduled route from Santa Cruz to La Paz, Bolivia. This was the first aircraft hijacking in the world for political purposes. The aircraft was hijacked and forced to land at Salta International Airport, in Argentina.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Secuestro de Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano en 1956” (revision 175027935, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Spanish Wikipedia article: Secuestro de Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano en 1956
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 175027935 · 2026-08-25 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q131729366
- 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
- es Wikipedia article "Secuestro de Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano en 1956" (page 11089967, revision 175027935), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.