1967 Aerocóndor Colombia Douglas DC-4 incident

The incidents of the two Aerocóndor Colombia Douglas DC-4s refers to two incidents suffered with registration HK-757, in which a bomb was detonated on board and the flight was hijacked.

Incidents

The first incident occurred on the afternoon of 29 May 1967 when, on the Barranquilla-Bogotá route, a bomb exploded at 6000 feet above the municipality of San Marcos, seriously injuring a stewardess and causing substantial damage to the aircraft, which managed to land successfully at El Dorado International Airport.

10 weeks later, on a flight between Barranquilla and San Andrés, five people armed with revolvers hijacked the flight; they told the passengers that there had been an accident in San Andrés and that they were going to divert to Panama, and told the air traffic controllers in Panama and Barranquilla that they had problems with their radio and would not communicate any more; and they set course for Cuba

When the aircraft entered Cuban airspace, two MIG fighter jets intercepted the DC-4, which radioed its intentions, and another Colombian flight, from Avianca, relayed the information to Colombia. When the aircraft landed in Havana the passengers were accommodated in a hotel and were allowed to return on the same aircraft the following day, landing in San Andrés in front of more than 3000 people who were waiting for the flight.