Hijacking of flight AZ 871
Alitalia Boeing 727 · Hijacking
From Houari Boumediene Airport (ALG) to Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)
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
- 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
- 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
Boeing 727
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 727
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Alitalia
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Houari Boumediene Airport (ALG)To Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The hijacking of flight AZ 871, operated by Alitalia on the Algiers-Rome route with a Boeing 727 carrying 101 passengers and 8 crew (captain Leonardo Sinisi; first officer Ezio Bertolini), was an act of air piracy perpetrated on 25 September 1982.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Italian Wikipedia article “Dirottamento del volo AZ 871” (revision 147252514, 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
Italian Wikipedia article: Dirottamento del volo AZ 871
- Article
- Dirottamento del volo AZ 871
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 147252514 · 2025-10-16 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q48805955
- 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
- it Wikipedia article "Dirottamento del volo AZ 871" (page 6581947, revision 147252514), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article 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
- 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 Italian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.