Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 811
BAC One-Eleven · Hijacking
From General Enrique Mosconi International Airport (CRD) to Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (AEP)
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
- Unknown
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 102
- 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
- 0
- 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
BAC One-Eleven
- Aircraft type
- Bac ONE-ELEVEN
- 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
- LV-JNS
- Operator
- Austral Líneas Aéreas
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From General Enrique Mosconi International Airport (CRD)To Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (AEP)
Approximate · Estimated position: Trelew, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 811 (AU-811) of 15 August 1972 was a scheduled passenger flight operated with a BAC 1-11 between General Mosconi Airport in Comodoro Rivadavia, with stopovers at Trelew Airport and Bahía Blanca Airport, and final destination Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in the City of Buenos Aires.
It did not reach its destination, since in the city of Trelew it was hijacked by a group of ten Cuban-trained guerrillas and diverted first to Puerto Montt and finally to Santiago, in Chile. The following day the aircraft returned to Buenos Aires, while the guerrillas remained in Chile.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Vuelo 811 de Austral Líneas Aéreas” (revision 175117853, 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: Vuelo 811 de Austral Líneas Aéreas
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 175117853 · 2026-08-30 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q17462727
- 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 "Vuelo 811 de Austral Líneas Aéreas" (page 6372113, revision 175117853), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
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.