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Japan Airlines Flight 351 hijacking

6 Nov 1972 · Haneda Airport, Japan

Japan Airlines (JAL) Boeing 727 · Hijacking (police officers arrested the hijacker after the crew and passengers were released)

From Tokyo International Airport to Fukuoka Airport

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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
127
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
Onboard fatalities
0
Route
From Tokyo International AirportTo Fukuoka Airport

Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.

From the Wikipedia article

The Japan Airlines Flight 351 hijacking (Nihon Kōkū 351-bin haijakku jiken, Japan Airlines Flight 351) was a hijacking of a Japan Airlines aircraft that occurred on 6 November 1972.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Japanese Wikipedia article “日本航空351便ハイジャック事件” (revision 107431230, 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

Japanese Wikipedia article: 日本航空351便ハイジャック事件
Article
日本航空351便ハイジャック事件
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
107431230 · 2025-11-30 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q11508988
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
ja Wikipedia article "日本航空351便ハイジャック事件" (page 1799097, revision 107431230), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
none
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 article lead
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Japanese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.