LAN Chile Flight 87
LAN Airlines Sud Aviation Caravelle · Hijacking
From El Tepual International Airport (Puerto Montt), Chile to Los Cerrillos Aerodrome (Santiago), Chile
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
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 62
- 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
- 3
- 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
Sud Aviation Caravelle
- Aircraft type
- Sud AVIATION CARAVELLE
- 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
- CC-CCO
- Operator
- LAN Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From El Tepual International Airport (Puerto Montt), ChileTo Los Cerrillos Aerodrome (Santiago), Chile
Approximate · Estimated position: Puerto Montt, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
LAN Chile Flight 87 was a commercial flight of the Caravelle aircraft No. 502 that took off on 12 November 1969 from El Tepual International Airport in Puerto Montt bound for Los Cerrillos Aerodrome in Santiago. It was hijacked in mid-flight by two young Chileans who, armed and under threats, demanded that the pilot and his crew divert the route and take them to the island of Cuba.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Vuelo 87 de LAN Chile” (revision 174904185, 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 87 de LAN Chile
- Article
- Vuelo 87 de LAN Chile
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 174904185 · 2026-08-18 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q65162689
- 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 87 de LAN Chile" (page 8940853, revision 174904185), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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
- 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.