Hijacking of flight AZ 1790
Alitalia Boeing 747 · Hijacking
From Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO) to Narita International Airport (NRT)
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
- Unknown
- 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
- 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
Boeing 747
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 747
- 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
- Unknown
- Route
- From Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)To Narita International Airport (NRT)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The hijacking of flight AZ 1790, operated by Alitalia on the Rome-New Delhi-Tokyo route with a Boeing 747 carrying 242 passengers and 18 crew (captain Giorgio Amoroso), was an act of air piracy perpetrated on 30 June 1982.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Italian Wikipedia article “Dirottamento del volo AZ 1790” (revision 139077425, 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 1790
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 139077425 · 2024-04-30 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q48805967
- 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 1790" (page 6582104, revision 139077425), 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
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- 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.